Interesting link to the article at Support Your Local Gunfighter
I didn't realize that your birth city and date of birth can enable a good guess at the first five digits of the SSN - so if you give the last four digits, as many websites, particularly banks and credit card companies require, you risk giving them the whole number - and the access to your personal data that implies.
It does kind of make sense.
ReplyDeleteI always figured that some of those numbers identified the state you were from, and maybe the city.
All three of us siblings were born in the same state and have the same middle two numbers. big sis and I were born in the same city and the first three are close.