SS numbers are easy to fake

Print this post Submit this story to: DiggGoogle BookmarkStumbleUponDel.icio.usTechnoratiHuggReddit Social Slave # It is possible to use publicly available data on state and date of birth to predict someone’s Social Security number, particularly if they were born after 1988 and in smaller states, according to an article published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The ability to use statistic inference to predict the sensitive data exposes the Social Security num