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Comment by wodenokoto

> you can look up a person's address and all kinds of personal data if you know their social security number, for example

Other people aren't supposed to know your SSN.

A former police officer who was fed up with the poor security surrounding some online government service managed to extract and publish the prime ministers SSN and got in a lot of trouble.

parent wodenokoto 11 years ago

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