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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Don't use my SSA as a unique identifying indicia for me
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 19:41:46 EDT
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> I wonder how many people just make up a number at random and use that?
> 
> Seriously, the University of Maryland wants to use SSNs as student
> IDs.  If one objects, one may get a local number (which of course
> looks exactly like an SSN).  I'll bet a few of these local numbers
> have gotten into the payroll.
> 
> Unique IDs only work if they're unique.

You'll notice that your University of Maryland ID number is ten digits
rather than nine.  The first digit is one if the rest of your ID is
your social security number.  I managed to get mine stuck in a keypunch
machine decoding the holes.

-Ron