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Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by vegardx on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:06AM (#21068765)
I ordered pizza to another guy that shares almost the exact same phone number as me, but the kicker is that we've both managed to choose the same PIN-number to log in. I noticed after placing the order that the delivery address was half way across the country.

Called the pizza place and it took them quite some time to understand what could have gone wrong. I had, after all, logged in, and was still logged in. We had a good laugh when we figured it out. Sales rep called the guy up, but I don't think he cancelled the pizza. So free pizza, I guess.

Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by dbcurtis on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:53AM (#21071959)
OK, we are wondering way off topic here, by my pizza & phone number story....

Back in the days of pheasant-under-glass mainframes, I had a part time student job as an operator in the computation center. We had a phone at the operator console, and 90% of the legitimate calls came from the operator console at the computation center at the other state university on the other side of the state. Our phone number happenned to be the same, but for the middle two digits reversed, of the most popular pizza place in a college town. The vast majority of the calls were to place a pizza order, not someone looking for the on-duty mainframe operator.

Our standard practice was to answer the phone “wrong number” — because it usually was. Anyone with a legit reason to call us knew the drill. Pizza orderers, especially the half-drunk ones, were our amusment on an lonely night shift of hanging tapes.

Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by XJ6 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @06:51AM (#21069459)
Would you mind adding context here, what's a PIN number in the context of pizza delivery?
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by tclancy on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:16AM (#21069593)
1234
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by mxuribe on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:39AM (#21070159)
Uh oh, i guess i need to change the combination for the lock on my luggage! :-)
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by JohnFen on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:13AM (#21071512)
Whew! I dodged a bullet there. My luggage combination is 1111!
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by beobab on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @09:57AM (#21070798)
And you'd better do it with ludicrous speed. ;)
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by mxuribe on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:24AM (#21071057)
No, no, they've gone to plaid! :-)
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by danillonunes on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @09:28AM (#21070545)
Outrageous! I only order pizza from places that requires a minimum of 16 chars passwords and 2FA.
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:27AM (#21071088)
The password for your account on the pizza place's website. (The user name being the phone number, apparently.)
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by XJ6 on Friday September 27, 2019 @10:44AM (#21092531)
That seems appalling, why wouldn't it just have a normal email/password combination?