Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself
by frenchman_in_ny on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:20PM
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What's worse these days is, ever since the Equifax breach, certain institutions have taken to asking me for the last 6 digits of my social (or even worse... all of them...)
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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself
by Retra on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @09:53PM
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SSN isn't even a 'secret' number. Military folk have it on their ID tags and you're supposed to give it up if you're a POW. If you're supposed to give it to your enemies, then how is it private info?
Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself
by sitkack on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:46PM
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The last 4 or 6 are the ones with the most information. The preceding 3-5 digits are handed out in blocks to the states. So if you roughly know when and where someone is born, you can guess their prefix.
http://www.ssofficelocation.com/social-security-number-prefi...