• Steve@communick.news
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    26 days ago

    No.
    The original concept had the first 3 digits identifying a regional office that issued the number.
    And no SSN has been issued with any group of digits having all 0’s

    Fore more info Wikipedia is good at this kind of stuff.

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      I read stories from older university alumni from back when SSN served as student IDs where someone who issued gym uniforms or something like that would wow students by telling them where they were born when they’d tell him their SSN.

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        I went to state college in the 90s and they posted test scores with SSNs. That is when I noticed that most of the students had one of two three digit prefixes. Thought it was based on when they were issued, looked up how SSNs worked and found out about the location pattern.

        This was before the credit industry hijacked the number and started treating it as a secret code, despite SSNs not being intended for anything other than Social Security.

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        26 days ago

        It wasn’t until the internet that people started to secure their social. It took the internet for it to be a thing.

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    26 days ago

    reported for doxing, uhhh, someone’s SSN… maybe…

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      26 days ago

      I don’t trust the fact that cum wants his location to be a secret. The location of cum should always be well established.