From: Rich Graves <rcgraves@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:54:18 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Validating SSNs
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Timothy C. May wrote:
> 
> Indeed, I protected my privacy decades ago by discarding my issued SSN 
> and substituting a different one. This "phony SSN" is what I use on my 
> tax returns, my credit cards, and for my employers.
> 
> Ha! None of them know that this is not my True Social Security Number!
> 
> By this I protect my privacy.

Brilliant! Little do they know that when they analyze your spending 
patterns, your addresses, your employment, your education, and your 
kids, they're really investigating something that has NOTHING TO DO WITH 
YOU!

[Just in case there are people too thick to understand "subtlety."] 

-rich