Social Security Numbers: Less Boring Than You'd Think

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2012

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Do you know that up until July 2011 an ambitious hacker with a good software program could deduce your social security number based on your date and place of birth? In this episode, the boys examine some of the lesser-known details of the Social Security

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:33.4	It's ready for you.
0:35.9	Welcome to Stuffy Should Know from housecafworks.com.
0:45.8	Hey and welcome into the podcast.
0:47.2	I'm Josh Clark.
0:48.6	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:51.6	AKA 286547523.
0:55.4	Dude, you can't get out your social security number.
0:58.2	I just made that up.
0:59.2	I thought about that.
1:00.2	I thought about what if I ended up when we were describing what the different numbers
1:04.5	were?
1:05.5	I was like, well, my happens to be this one.
1:07.6	If you listen to the whole podcast you could put together my social security number and
1:10.7	I was like, don't do that, Josh.
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