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Crooks Don't Need to Steal SSNs If They Can Create Valid SSNs Themselves

I've had some very interesting discussions about the CMU SSN study throughout the week, and, before moving on to other topics next week, I wanted to wrap up the week and discussion with some final thoughts on the CMU SSN...

Implications Of The CMU SSN Study: What Business Leaders Need To Understand

Following the release of the CMU SNN report on Monday, I've had some very interesting discussions with privacy and information security folks, and I've been pretty amazed at some of the reactions to the study. I also posted about this...

Study Proves SSNs Are Easily Guessed; Don't Use SSNs To Verify Identity Or As Passwords!

It is nice to have scientific evidence of what we've been telling business leaders ever since they wanted to start using SSNs as identifiers and passwords! Today Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) released a very revealing report, "Predicting Social Security numbers...

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