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Re:GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach by JumpCrisscross on Sunday August 04, 2019 @12:02PM (#20607298)
> Given enough SSNs as training data, could someone make an ML model that churns our mostly valid SSNs?

Most SSNs are deterministically derived. Given a single valid SSN, you can often generate millions of valid preceding values.

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Re:GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach by ageitgey on Sunday August 04, 2019 @12:05PM (#20607320)
That changed in 2011. Now they are random. But it is still true for older numbers.

https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomization.html

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