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		calvinmorrison on Aug 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inside the "3 billion people" national public data... In fact there are far fewer valid Socials. They follow a system where guessing a number of digits is fairly determined based on year and state of birth

__float on Aug 15, 2024 | [–]

This is not exactly true; the system _used_ to have a geographic component but SSNs issued since 2011 are random.

(Granted, most people here with an SSN should be older than that.)

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