I'm 80% sure I didn't manually change my birthday to January 1st on Facebook in a fit of ill-conceived paranoia. 80%.
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That said, I wasn't even born in the US, so I don't know why I would be so paranoid.
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@sarahjeong I think "place issued" would be more correct. Mine not from POB, but from pl. issued b/c I got it at 19-yo, though born in US. -
It’s true, but the security issue arises when you put both your birthday and hometown on FB—highly likely to be place issued.
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@sarahjeong Agreed. Good that they are now aware of that.
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@noahmccormack I’m not correlated either, but the first link I gave allows prediction independent of that
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@noahmccormack Yeah, it’s about correlating disparate data sources
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@noahmccormack So the second one I mention is using birth date / place born to predict the SSN, bc highly correlated with how issued
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@noahmccormack first one I mention is using birth date / place born to predict SSN using multiple government databases
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@noahmccormack So even if your SSN isn’t linked with your birthdate/birthplace (because you’re not a citizen, etc), on these databases...
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@sarahjeong I once had someone recognize I was from DC based on my SSN -
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@sarahjeong@harrisj This is the thing that annoys me about Tow's criticism of only new algorithms. SSNs generation is an algorithm too. -
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@knowtheory@sarahjeong@zeynep instead of SSN we just assign everyone a unique SHA-1 ID and when you come of age you generate your own key -
@harrisj@sarahjeong@zeynep Just think of all the new jobs that could be created to plan an entire nation's worth of key signing parties -
@knowtheory@sarahjeong@zeynep not to mention all the hours lost trying to disambiguate names in databases
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