"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.
Walt Disney World announces fall festival dates
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By Robert Niles: The Walt Disney World Resort has announced this year's
dates for two of its popular fall festivals.
The resort this morning announced the...
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