So What's Your Social Security Number?

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I think that people should be more careful of what types of information they divulge on a public forum. What are your thoughts?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:13 (twenty years ago) link

does your sister work at Amoeba, gygax?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

Do you want my number or not? I don't have all day?

What information are you talking about?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:17 (twenty years ago) link

i want to name my band:

DEATH MENARCHE

what do you think?

also,

597-93-9274

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link

328-69-3825

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

is this about the underwear thread?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

(check out yer phone to figure out the "secret meaning")

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

Fat Ox Duck?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

123-45-6789

― King Roland, Friday, 14 November 2003 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

you clever king!

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:29 (twenty years ago) link

In retrospect, my post seems incredibly snarky. It was intended to be humorous.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link

It can be both.

867-53-09e9

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:47 (twenty years ago) link

154-54-3245

Yahoo.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:52 (twenty years ago) link

*looks down at floor* I fear you may be referring to me, considering the great wealth of information I let you guys in on.

My Social Security Number is: 718-17-0003. Or not. Maybe. Why don't you try it out and tell me what you think, hm?

― Pancakes For Breakfast! (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:31 (twenty years ago) link

867-5309

― Jenny (Chris Barrus), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:31 (twenty years ago) link

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 14 November 2003 01:39 (twenty years ago) link

867-5309

Check above, plz.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

ned you even captured all the emotion and nuance of the last note

― ron (ron), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:48 (twenty years ago) link

I h'aint gibbin you guys nuttin! *shifty look*

― Paranoid android (trayce), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:49 (twenty years ago) link

JC-001 fwiw. KICK TO THE CLIP BABY! SLAP A 42352598265 GO! HAVE SOME OF THAT! Sorry, what was the question?

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:49 (twenty years ago) link

Such was the goal!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:49 (twenty years ago) link

Get in.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 14 November 2003 01:51 (twenty years ago) link

What is a social security number? hmmmmmmmmmmmm?

― Illegal Alien, Friday, 14 November 2003 05:33 (twenty years ago) link

It's a number that, when introduced, the government assured everyone it would definitely NOT be used for identification or tracking people.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 November 2003 05:37 (twenty years ago) link

does anyone else get those fake Ebay or Citibank e-mails. for some reason they creep me out.they are blatantly fake, but they are so wrong. the ones that want your pin numbers and such. i'll take the deposed african kings over them any day.

― scott seward, Friday, 14 November 2003 05:41 (twenty years ago) link

yeah I got that Citibank one, it was really strange.

― hstencil, Friday, 14 November 2003 05:41 (twenty years ago) link

I mean, esp. given their "identity theft protection" commercials that run like every 10 minutes on any given tv channel I'm watching...

― hstencil, Friday, 14 November 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link

THX-1138

― rgeary (rgeary), Friday, 14 November 2003 05:45 (twenty years ago) link

is a good movie, yeah.

― hstencil, Friday, 14 November 2003 05:50 (twenty years ago) link

the ebay one i got was weird cuz ya know they had the logo and everything but it was so lame looking. and it makes you feel like someone is trying to rob you but you can't do anything about it. it reminds me of this time i was working in a store and these two scary dudes came in while i was alone and honestly i thought they were just gonna rob me and i was scared. turns out they put something on the counter to buy and then they hand me a travellers check except it's a xerox of a travellers check. except they only xeroxed the one side of the check! the back of it is just blank. i told them we didn't take travellers checks and waited for them to shoot me but then they left. i don't know why sleazy e-mails remind me of that but they do for some reason.

― scott seward, Friday, 14 November 2003 05:50 (twenty years ago) link

Curt1s, you old.

― David Beckh0u5e (Dave Beckh0u5e), Friday, 14 November 2003 05:57 (twenty years ago) link

My mom has gotten a couple "Click through here & update your amazon one click settings!" ones. No one else I've talked to has gotten those, so I find it funny that they like to send them to her. I've taught her (tried to teach her) about spoofed headers & clicking through long disguised urls in those emails that end up redirecting you to something like http://123.232.88 -where you're really not at, say, amazon's website. And yet she still calls me sometimes & says "Hmmm, I have this email from ebay... I don't think I have an ebay account." Ahh... parents, the forever internet clueless. ;-)

― lyra (lyra), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:04 (twenty years ago) link

I haven't used my SS# in about five years, so it should be fairly useless. However, I still remember it!

I'm not stupid enough to go posting it on a public internet site, though.

(I don't remember my alien registration number, though. That I had to check. I still carry my bloody green card around with me everywhere I go, this is how brainwashed I am. Sigh.)

(Wow, I just found my social security card in my wallet. It's pretty beaten up, cause I believed the thing about it being illegal to laminate it.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 14 November 2003 10:22 (twenty years ago) link

you clever king!

Gotta stay on guard against those Spaceballs, you know...

― King Roland, Sunday, 16 November 2003 04:47 (twenty years ago) link

five years pass...

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/facebook-new-algorithm-can-guess-your-ssn

― am0n, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link

I've wondered about how those first five numbers are calculated. The thing that that article is incorrect about, is that it isn't the state where you were born, but the state you lived in when you were registered with social security. It's only been relatively recently that people have gotten social security numbers for their kids when they're born. Probably largely due to reporting requirements on tax returns.

― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link

Also, facebook lists one's home town, which could very well be in a different state than where one was born or received one's ssn.

― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link

well it says its not all that accurate, but gets progressively more so in smaller states and with people born after 1989 which is when they began to give ssn #'s at birth. its a shitty blog article, prob shouldve linked to this instead http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/social-insecurity-numbers-open-to-hacking.ars

― am0n, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Master_File

― am0n, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah, the arstechnica one is better. Glad I was born in the 70s and didn't grow up in North Dakota.

― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Death Master File seems like a band name.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link

606-08-4252

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link

???-**-$$$$

― Aimless, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

Social Security was signed into law by FDR on August 14, 1935, 83 years ago today. One of the key forces behind its creation was Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the only woman present at the ceremony and one of the most important and under-appreciated figures in US history. pic.twitter.com/5HV3di7hIL
— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) August 14, 2018

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link

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