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Nerd hacker politics, but SSN leaks are no joke.



Agreed: The real joke is any organization using SSNs as an authentication mechanism (as opposed to an identifier).


Nothing>door>door with lock

Both in terms of security, and in the crime of vulnerating it.


I had a database of all SSNs for a while, but it was on a work laptop, so I didn't get to keep it.



It's missing names and addresses and credit scores and emails and phones


Feel free to open a pull request!


Thanks. Now I can always double check mine!




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