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From: kiessig@idi.UUCP (Rick Kiessig)
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Subject: Re: Another Form of ID
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Date: Thu, 19-Jul-84 13:52:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 19 13:52:11 1984
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Organization: Intelligent Decisions, Saratoga, CA
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	NO!  Do not put your social security number on any
property that you wish to have recovered by the police!  I
worked for the police department when I was in school, and
they had an entire room full of stuff that they couldn't
get back to their original owners because it was incorrectly
marked with social security numbers instead of drivers license
numbers.  DLs are easily looked up over computer terminals
that are present in most police departments.  SSNs are just
about IMPOSSIBLE to look up.  The stuff that was recovered
with SSNs on it was eventually sold at auction.

-- 
Rick Kiessig
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