Thinking about signing up for a Facebook application that shares your birthday? Think again. Ars Technica reports on how two Carnegie Mellon researchers have demonstrated a technique that uses publicaly available information to reconstruct Social Security numbers with a startling degree of accuracy.
From what I can see, this technique will be more relevant to people who have applied for SSN’s in the late 80’s or later. However, it does highlight the fact that maybe too much private information about us made public is not always a good thing.
So, I’ve taken my birth date off my Facebook page.
Read the entire article here:
New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of birth – Ars Technica.
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