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Shinare
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As I was sitting here thinking about the two new hacks announced today (SnapChat and Dairy Queen) the thought occurred to me... I wonder if we all shouldn't just change our credit/debit card numbers annually or on some other routine basis. Then I thought, why not SSN as well?

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Post Fri Oct 10, 2014 8:53 am  View user's profile Send private message ICQ Number
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Don't think there are enough possible combinations to do that unless you started reusing numbers.

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You can only change your SSN once TMK.
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Menos wrote: Don't think there are enough possible combinations to do that unless you started reusing numbers.


Perhaps they start using alphas as well? (and thereby piss off every programmer and database administrator ever born)
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Plunk wrote: You can only change your SSN once TMK.


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Shinare wrote:
Perhaps they start using alphas as well? (and thereby piss off every programmer and database administrator ever born)


Maybe they could use the base16 of the number instead

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The only thing a base16 would do over alphas would be reduced computing storage needed and with modern computers who gives a damn about that, and reduced confusion between character recognition (zero vs O) but those are also easily solvable by removing certain characters from use. Alphas would allow for a significantly higher number of available values without increasing the length of the character string.

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I kind of assumed the number of possible values would be extended along with a move to the encoding. If you added 3 digits to the number it wouldn't add a lot to the base16 encode. The reasoning for base16: I was thinking more from the standpoint of easy input validation, which programmers often forget.
Kind of ironic really.

They've issued about 450-something million SSNs out of a possible 740-something million. Maybe it would be a good time to move to something else altogether.

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I use base 62 numbers fairly regularly for my encrypting, but I might be the only one.

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