• Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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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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      16 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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        5 hours ago

        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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          4 hours ago

          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.