At 9:55 PM -0700 12/14/97, Bill Stewart wrote:
The only people you can press charges on are government employees asking you for SSN information in ways that violate the Privacy Act of 197x, which has been amended several times to water it down, and while the employees can theoretically be fined for violating it, your chances of collecting are near zero.
The driver's license cops won't issue a license without a SSN. The bank won't do business without someone with an SSN. Even my gun range wants my SSN. But I have a new SSN to give them: 539-60-5125 Of course, don't try this at home. SSN fraud may land you in prison for a year, while murderers get seven months in prison. And while double murderers have to sell their houses in Brentwood. Only in Amerika, where the lunatics run the asylum. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."