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From: myers@bnl.UUCP (Eric Myers)
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Subject: Re: Don't use my SSA as a unique identifying indicia for me
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 10:21:00 EDT
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> 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.

*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR SS # ***

Yale University also uses a 10-digit student ID number; the first nine
digits are your social security number, the last digit is a one.  I
don't know what they do if you don't have a SS #.  The student health
center there uses the last four digits of the SS # as an identifying
number.  When you check in they ask for your "last four digits". This is
usually followed by a pause in the conversation of about the length of
time it takes one to say the first five digits in your head.

Eric Myers,  Physics Dept., Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lon Guyland
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