― lyra (lyra), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:04 (twenty years ago) link
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
Gotta stay on guard against those Spaceballs, you know...
― King Roland, Sunday, 16 November 2003 04:47 (twenty years ago) link
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
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