Insecurity of social security cards

The insecurity of social security cards. And also here.

I was born before the “Enumeration at Birth” program, which meant that my parents weren’t made to get a ss# for me. The study linked to above confirms my thinking that they’re not secure. I didn’t know there was a pattern at all until a few years ago. I learned that you can tell which state a person is from by the first three digits of their social security number. I figured the other two groups of numbers probably also had such a pattern; I just didn’t know what it was.

Not earth-shattering but interesting none-the-less.

I’ve always been very conscious of how and in what way I exist on paper. Which is strange because I’ve never been paranoid. But—I don’t even like vanity plates. What if my future self wanted to commit a crime? What if I felt had to? How am I going to get to where I’m going safely if they’ve got an APB out on a car with plates that read MDLFNGR?

This is tagged military and science because the National Science Foundation and the Army’s Research Office, among others, also funded the study.

I’m off. For now.