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Re:India's living dead by Gravityloss on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:59AM (#28302472)
When you run out of social security id:s and start to have collisions.
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Re:India's living dead by heelix on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:07PM (#28307014)
They do recycle SSNs! I had a project where we used the death master files (they use to be more free/public, now https://ladmf.ntis.gov looks like they have a fee ). It was really interesting data pull sequences of users with the same SSN, similar names, and different birthdays. The users with typo SSNs were interesting too.
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Re:India's living dead by rolph on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:54PM (#28304626)
when the database is so large, it cant be parsed in a human lifetime
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