Did not the libs of the 30s not promise that our SSN would not be utilized for identification?
Of course, when has anything they promised come about?
OK, great... now they tell the whole world how to get SS#’s
yep, Happy days are here again.... 8^(
Sorry, this is BS.
I have two sisters and three brothers. All of us were born in different states and our SSNs are consecutive.
Bravo Sierra. If they are using JUST birthday and home state, there will be many born during that 24 hour period.
They may be able to narrow it down to a range, but can’t pinpoint.
And what about naturalized citizens?
This may apply to individuals who have been assigned their SSN at or near the time of their birth, but not otherwise. My parents did not get us SSN’s until we were several years old, and living in a different state from the one(s) we were born in. A few years, I looked into the provenance of my SSN, and found that it corresponded to the state where we got our SSN, not my birth state.
The article may still make some interesting reading, however, because it could be an algorithm that works frequently enough to be useful to identity thieves who have several thousand people’s personal credit data or some other potentially lucrative personal information needing a valid SSN to exploit.
I’m not sure, either, about the “first three digits are the digits of the zip code”.
It is true that the FIRST digit sometimes is the Fed zone you are in (Maine, 0, California 9, like the fed appeals court districts.
That’s some crack! The scheme is outlined right on the the social security webpage:
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/ssn/geocard.html
I remember me and my 3 siblings all getting ours at the same time. We are not consecutive but close.
how about we get rid of SSNs? Oh wait you are a fully actualized human being without a government issued id number.
Ever hear those forlorn people who say “I have a hole in my soul that only a 12 digit serial number can fill.”?
567-68-0515
I suspect they are lying. The number is based on where and when you get it, not where and when you were born.
Back in the late 70's I was a Navy recruiter and had prospects in their 20's who had never needed one,had grown up on family farms and the like.
I have two SSNs. I doubt any algorithm would be able to pick up on both of them even if there was a code to them.
My two numbers aren’t sequential. They both have the same 5 starting digits, but the last 4 are completely different.
I think the numbers are assigned 1) geographically and 2) sequentially within the geographical area, based on when the application was received and processed.
I still don’t know why I have two...