Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!bellcore!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Don't use my SSA as a unique identifying indicia for me my name is... Message-ID: <1232@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-May-85 08:44:09 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.1232 Posted: Wed May 15 08:44:09 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 17-May-85 03:24:40 EDT References: <25524@lanl.ARPA> <10476@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <2598@tekig.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 13 As for making up an SSN, think for a moment. In the course of 30 or 40 years, given the eccentricities of computers, the memory, and anything else that could go wrong, the likelyhood of your ever being able to collect SSN (assuming it is still around when you retire) is questionable. I have heard of a number of horror stories about folks who made up numbers and latter got stiffed by the system. Other cases abound where because someone made up a number, someone else, who REALLY belonged to the number, got screwed. And yes, TRW has a bead on everyone, including those six alien astronauts living in the laboratory on the sixth planet of the Del-Cross system in sector IV. T. C. Wheeler