From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:21:01 +0800
To: "CypherPunks List" <meander-talk@abacus96.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Social Security
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At 04:51 PM 2/10/98 -0500, Brian B. Riley wrote:
>
>---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ----------------
>Date:        02/09  10:25 PM
>Received:    02/09  10:29 PM
>From:        James A Chappelow, chappja@mail.auburn.edu
>Reply-To:    Vermont Libertarian, vtlp-list@catamount.com
>To:          Multiple recipients of, vtlp-list@catamount.com
>
>Outside of Birmingham, a kid was arrested Saturday for not giving a cop
>his Social Security number. The bumper fell off his truck, so he stuck the
>tag in the rear window; not a rare sight in Alabama. 


Luckily, even though many states demand SS#s, they tend not to verify SS#s so you can supply whatever you like.  One state (Ohio) demanded some proof of SS# and was satisfied by a payroll check stub which can be generated by any computer.

Common identifiers are meaningless if not verified.

DCF