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Re:Dead Man's Switch by jimktrains2 on Monday April 07, 2014 @07:19PM (#7550347)
I've always wondered how the SS administration deals with this. SSN _should_ be unique, but in practice they're not, so how do these people deal with taxes and _gasp_, social security?
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Re:Dead Man's Switch by chid on Monday April 07, 2014 @09:30PM (#7550895)
If I were to guess I'd say they use other ID factors such as name/dob
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