SSAN "SOS"

[Edward]

I read this in the Readers Digest - Oct 2009: "As if we needed another reason to worry about identity theft: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon UNiversity have discovered it's fairly easy to guess the first six digits of a person's SSAN if you know the birth date and hometown. That's because there are chronological and geographical patterns to the numbers. The Social Security Admin is working on a method to generate randomized numbers" I suppose with all the new technology out there it can be done!!

[Jack from Ohio]

I read this in the Readers Digest - Oct 2009: "As if we needed another reason to worry about identity theft: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon UNiversity have discovered it's fairly easy to guess the first six digits of a person's SSAN if you know the birth date and hometown. That's because there are chronological and geographical patterns to the numbers. The Social Security Admin is working on a method to generate randomized numbers" I suppose with all the new technology out there it can be done!!

Just like most urban myths, there is a tiny bit of truth, and a lot of embelishment.