Chambers wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Yeah, I read the story Greg referred to on /. as well, that SSNs might 
>> be "predictable" if you know certain pieces of information about a 
>> person - where they were born, when they were born, etc.
> 
> That's like predicting who's going to get a winning lottery ticket based 
> on knowing when & where they buy tickets, isn't it?

Why? SSNs were started before computers were invented, so each office got a 
batch of prefixes and an algorithm for using them. You couldn't do the 
"allocate sequentially" algorithm when Social Security was invented.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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