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Comment by calvinmorrison

9 months ago

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

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__float  9 months ago

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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