From: Garth Brown (Semaphore Software) <v-garthb@microsoft.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 94 17:43:54 PDT
To: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: CreditCard info
Message-ID: <9408080045.AA26869@netmail2.microsoft.com>
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| From: Brian Lane  <blane@squeaky.free.org>
|   It's unbelieveable (to me anyway) that people would give this kind of
| information out and trust that it can't be abused. It's bad enough that
| we're asked to hand out our SS number for everything.

It's my understanding that it's technically illegal for anyone to require
your SSN for anything if they are not using it for SS related purposes.
I had heard that congress passed a law when SSNs were issued to this
effect.

Am I hallucinating, or has someone else heard this too?!

garthB>
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 Garth S. Brown, Semaphore Corporation    122 South Jackson Street, 
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 garthb@semaphore.com                     Seattle, Washington 98104     

                                          InterNIC WHOIS: GB(31)        

 -Public key available via finger of garthb@semaphore.com               

 -PGP2.6 Key fingerprint =  65 0E 48 A1 F7 38 DB 03  3F 77 77 9E B5 53 
2E 96
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