A day in the life

[Bill Stewart]

At 03:01 AM 07/21/2003 +0000, Justin wrote:
>J.A. Terranson (2003-07-20 21:07Z) wrote:
> > So I have seen two separate businesses today who are just shooting 
> themselves
> > in the head over the acquisition of data in the face of obvious refusal.
>....
>I'm surprised they didn't ask for your SSN ... as an index for the database...
>
>I've adopted a SSN I use for idiots like that.  I don't know whether
>it's assigned, but it's in the valid range.  Isn't that just terrible.

Please don't do that.  You might pick a number belonging to some poor 
working guy
and mess up his credit or yours.

I read on the net that Richard Nixon's SSN is 567-68-0515,
and then there's that usual 078-thing from fake SSN cards in wallets.