I have been contracted by several private companies to secure their web applications after I revealed that I could steel their customers SSN's.
I have been in contact with two government agencies trying to get them to listen.
The first told me to write a letter to a P.O. box with my concerns telling me I was crazy.
The other listened and told me they would take the concerns to their security team.
I've found the private sector very responsive and the government agentcies very lack luster (and frankly offensive.)
Momentarily I thought the title meant a submarine.
I believe all government, federal, state, and local have decided that if citezens have problems of any type, those citizens turn to government. Many do. Most do not, at least in the United States. Self sufficiency is indedependance, is freedom. Thus, the lack of interest in any true solution to all problems from gubmint.
If you want to get the bureaucrats’ attention, steal their SSNs and include in your correspondence with them.
I always fake my birth date but I’ll tell you guys. I was born on May 29, 1976.
Or did I graduate high school on that date? Man, I hate getting old.
If you have a federal student loan I CAN steal your SSN.
Here is one website that is vulnerable to the attack.
https://fafsa.ed.gov/index.htm
Before telling me to shut up that it wasn’t possible they told me to write a report up and mail it to:
FSAIC
Application Processing Concern
P.O 84
Washington D.C. 20044
This is one of several BIG sites that are vulnerable.
My birth day on facebook is not my real birth day. My daughter pinged me one day and said, “Today isn’t your birthday”.
i.e. the downside is that everyone is wishing me a happy birthday when it’s not my birthday. I don’t care.
I just checked outside in the pool, and my submarine is still there. Whew!
The Mexicans are such a trashy bunch, along my property I have picked up litter and twice picked up SS cards they had discarded.
Fraudulent tax return filings are up by as much as 3,700% !!!
SSN originally was a retirement account number. It is now the universal identification number for individuals. There is not even a check digit embedded in the number. Nothing. Anyone who gets that number has it all.
You give it to the IRS, banks, credit cards companies, car dealers, colleges, employers and others.
The local vet requested it on the form for new customer. I left it blank.
As it is now, the SSN is the stupidest thing man has ever invented.
Politicians love it because it enables them to tie all our information together.
It’s got to change. To begin: extend the number by 5 or 6 digits; one of them will be a check digit. Then reserve it for its original purpose. The system designers should be able to figure out the rest.
SSN is Social Security Account Number? Who knew? I thought it was SSAN. I was expecting this article to be about stealing a nuclear submarine (SSN).
ok SO WHAT IS OBAMA’S SSN