Predictable Social Security Numbers – peeling back the layers of the onion
A few barriers to entry.
- First, read the research summary: http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2009/July/july6_ssnprediction.shtml
- Then, discover that the “death master file” is $14k plus update costs: http://www.ntis.gov/products/ssa-quarterly.aspx
Likely copies of this running around the “blackhat” underground, and it would only take a few identity thefts to cover the cost of the database, but the script kiddie populace should effectively be excluded.
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