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- Path: sparky!uunet!computer-privacy-request
- Date: 24 Dec 92 14:54:57 EST (Thu)
- From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: Re: Schools and SSN
- Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.120.1@pica.army.mil>
- Organization: I.E.C.C.
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- >I think the reason for kids needing SSN to enter school and kids having
- >them by the time is so that the Feds can better track abducted kids.
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- I'll bet anyone a dollar that the school merely writes down the alleged
- SSN provided for each kid without any verification. A kidnapper (or more
- likely a parent fleeing an abusive spouse) with the brains of a chipmunk
- would give a fake SSN.
-
- As has often been noted before, one of the reasons that the SSN is a poor
- choice of ID is that it is so easy to make one up. Practically any nine
- digit string starting with 0 through 5 is a valid SSN.
-
- Regards,
- John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl
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