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From: jwl@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: WordPerfect for students -- antisocial insecurity numbers
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Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 20:00:49 EDT
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In article <3126@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>When somebody asks me a personal question like those, my first response is
>"why do you want to know" and my second is to make up a number at random.
>I don't think it's illegal to give a private company a random number when
>asked for your social security number (outside of a tax context).

Hmmm, what about loan applications?  Most of them have a clause buried
somewhere where you promise that all the information provided is correct to
the best of your knowledge;  if you lie about your SS#, could you be 
charged with fraud?  

-- Jim Lewis
   U.C. Berkeley