<div dir="ltr">One of these days, I will finish an article to be posted to Linked IN "Identity Theft For Fun & Profit",<div>the gist of which is that with the last 4 digits of your SSN, your resume and birthday, and some websearching</div><div>will give you the entire SSN.</div><div>All you have to do is pretend to be a recruiter, and you can reverse engineer SSN for sale on the dark web.</div><div><br></div><div>Im going back and forth, should I post it to get companies to stop asking for SSN even partials, </div><div>or should I NOT post it because I dont want to give anyone any ideas.</div><div><br></div><div>I got tripped up when I tried to use Feb 29th as a dob.  </div><div>Apparently the software cant handle anyone born on leap day.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 4:08 PM Deirdre Saoirse Moen <<a href="mailto:deirdre@deirdre.net">deirdre@deirdre.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Re: security questions<div><br></div><div>Yes, never give *real* answers.</div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 15, 2020, at 15:10, Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">  "What most people forget is that some of these 'favorite things' are</span><br style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">  commonly used passwords or security questions," the BBB explained. "If</span><br style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">  your social media privacy settings aren’t high, you could be giving</span><br style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">  valuable information away for anyone to use."</span><br style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">My childhood pet was of course Dino the velociraptor, and my first car</span><br style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">was a Bugatti Veyron.  Favourite athlete:  Pheidippides.</span><br style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">(The Veyron nicely set off my jet-black hair and violet eyes.)</span><br style="font-family:LucidaGrande;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div>For a while, I was using imaginary 70s hair bands, so that image goes nicely with.</div><div><br></div><div>Deirdre</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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