Alma Mater

"Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have now figured out a way to roughly reverse engineer the way in which Social Security Numbers are assigned. Armed with your date of birth and the state in which you were born, it's now possible to generate a quite small set of digits that are likely to contain your actual SSN."

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Awesome.

But frankly, isn't it ridiculous to use a pithy 9-digit string to represent someone's private data? I mean, it's harder to break into my wireless router.