So guess what? You know how your social security number is this sacred nine-digit code that is the key to unlocking all the secrets of your identity and you're told from an early age to keep it to yourself and never ever share it with anyone cuz they'll STEAL it? Well, as if the flimsy paper card printed with your social security number on it was not worrisome enough, as it turns out any half-wit from Carnegie Mellon can use really complex mathematical formulas to guess that 9 digit code of yours.
WHAT.
Yeah. Check out the article--at the end of it, I realized I could probably figure out the social security numbers of anyone born in 1995 in Eastern Montana. That's fucked up. I guess I thought it was a randomized system but apparently the US Census Bureau isn't that sophisticated yet. Which, I mean, not a shock but still a shock if you get what I mean.
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