• Evotech@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Well, it’s an identifier, your problem if that you have been using it as some kind of access key

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      21 hours ago

      You can guess a phone number as well by changing the last number, but that information has 0 value unless it is coupled with other informations.

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        15 hours ago

        You can reverse engineer a good bit of an SSN if you just have someone’s birth date and where they were born.

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          I am not sure if you are agreeing with me or not, but DOB and location where you were born are additional informations as I mentioned in my replie before.

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            Oh yeah I agree that just getting a SSN is not a big issue itself but the fact that you can reverse engineer it from known information makes it not a very good security measure to prove identity.