Your Social Security # might be floating around the intern..

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In article <34l422F494amnU1@individual.net>,
Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@yahoo.com> wrote:

> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10271

Just type your SS # into Google and see if there are any hits on it.

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John Navas wrote:

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>
> In <jzwick3-EAC410.17545613012005@news1.west.earthlink.net> on Thu, 13 Jan
> 2005 23:55:04 GMT, Jack Zwick <jzwick3@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>In article <34l422F494amnU1@individual.net>,
>> Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10271
>>
>>Just type your SS # into Google and see if there are any hits on it.
>
> Not terribly smart, Chicken Little!

And why would that be?

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Jack Zwick wrote:
>
> In article <FmKFd.1840$m31.21193@typhoon.sonic.net>,
> John Navas <jnrelay1@sonic.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > In <jzwick3-EAC410.17545613012005@news1.west.earthlink.net> on Thu, 13 Jan
> > 2005 23:55:04 GMT, Jack Zwick <jzwick3@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> > >In article <34l422F494amnU1@individual.net>,
> > > Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10271
> > >
> > >Just type your SS # into Google and see if there are any hits on it.
> >
> > Not terribly smart, Chicken Little!
>
> Nice childish gratuitous insult.
>
> I suppose you think Google is run by Al Queda and they have nothing
> better to do than grab searches, and then get a supoena for your ISP to
> see whose it is?

Hey, Jack! Why not post *your* SS#, here? Do you thing Al Queda reads
this newsgroup, etc., etc., etc?

Notan

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In <jzwick3-39C21E.07020714012005@news1.west.earthlink.net> on Fri, 14 Jan
2005 13:03:41 GMT, Jack "CHICKEN LITTLE" Zwick <jzwick3@mindspring.com> wrote:

>In article <FmKFd.1840$m31.21193@typhoon.sonic.net>,
> John Navas <jnrelay1@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> In <jzwick3-EAC410.17545613012005@news1.west.earthlink.net> on Thu, 13 Jan
>> 2005 23:55:04 GMT, Jack Zwick <jzwick3@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <34l422F494amnU1@individual.net>,
>> > Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10271
>> >
>> >Just type your SS # into Google and see if there are any hits on it.
>>
>> Not terribly smart, Chicken Little!
>
>Nice childish gratuitous insult.

Proper response to truly stupid advice.

>I suppose you think Google is run by Al Queda and they have nothing
>better to do than grab searches, and then get a supoena for your ISP to
>see whose it is?

You are obviously as clueless about Internet security as you are about
cellular.

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In <41e83270$1_2@news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com> on Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:58:55
+1100, Simon Templar <usenet@vk3xem.net> wrote:

>Sarah Tanembaum wrote:
>> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10271
>
>I don't have a Social Security Number, so I don't think I have too much
>to worry about!

Thanks for sharing.

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In <1105798109.3ee88328939b24f71f9c10876755a24b@teranews> on Sat, 15 Jan 2005
09:11:11 -0500, George <me@whatever.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:46:51 GMT, John Navas
><spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>
>>>> Not terribly smart, Chicken Little!
>>>
>>>And why would that be?
>>
>>Because (1) transmission is in the clear and (2) Google searches aren't
>>private.
>
>And what?

And giving away your SSN is a good way to have your identity stolen.

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