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by spydum 490 days ago
Didn't you read Elon's post? SSNs database isn't deduplicated!
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cyberax 490 days ago
That's because there are SSNs shared by multiple people.
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blindriver 490 days ago
https://www.credit.com/blog/the-most-misused-social-security...
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tormeh 490 days ago
What? That sounds less than ideal.
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caspper69 490 days ago
It usually wasn't intentional: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html

The system still has to disambiguate and support the prospect of it happening though.

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