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thrwway_x34
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thrwway_x34
9y ago
>Do you have a reference for this Yes, the article. >There's also the question of whether those records are unique ID numbers Primary key contraints, plus they name of the column "NEW_IDN" (see GP) would strongly sugge
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thrwway_x34
9y ago
That's a guess from Troy at this point, he also points out that there may be expats. It should be easy enough to define some statistical tests on the ID numbers and dead/alive status to see if they fit the demographics of the SA a
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thrwway_x34
9y ago
The mystery of there being more ID numbers in the breach than people in SA could be explained if they were being used in the database as a generated primary key, and since the remaining columns are nullable, they could filled in with data f