Congress To Restrict Social Security Number Use

diverge_s writes "News.com.com has an article detailing a long overdue attempt Congress is making to restrict the use of Social Security Numbers. From the article: 'In both the House and the Senate, there are at least three pieces of pending legislation that propose different approaches to restricting the use and sale of SSNs. Politicians have expressed astonishment at what they see as a rising identity fraud problem, frequently pointing to a 2003 Federal Trade Commission survey that estimated nearly 10 million consumers are hit by such intrusions each year.'"

Too little too late

[davmoo]

So far everything Congress is talking about is as effective as trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Re:Band-aid on a gunshot wound.

[Anonymous Coward]

It didn't help that the whole public/private key system was developed 40 years after the SSA.

Re:Of course they want to restrict SSN#

[doppe1]

How else did you think they'd justify injecting RFID tags into our heads?

What, they haven't started this already ?

I just pulled out my teeth.

Re:If you need to use a fake SSN# use this one...

[OctoberSky]

I go with Peter Lemonjello, sometimes when asked I correct people with "It's Dr. Lemonjello"

Mr... err... Dr. Lemonjello has a Gmail account, a throw away cell phone, and subscriptions to Stuff, Popular Science, and Field & Stream. He now gets credit card offers. He lives in my house yet I have never seen him. H&R Block must think I am sick of him living with me because they are offering him a home loan, good rate too, Peter must have good credit.
He used to get those 9 cds for 1 penny but he got sick of all the associated crap that came along with them.
I reply to all of his mail with the return address labels some Church sent him. He must be religous, I think I might have Dr. Lemonjello ordained so he can conduct marragies through an online church.

Re:If you need to use a fake SSN# use this one...

[autophile]

My cat, "Synge Delgato", gets offers all the time. One time she got an offer in the mail which came complete with a nickel glued to the letter. I gave the coin to her, but she gave me this look that said, "What am I going to do with a nickel, you *know* I don't have any pockets!" So I kept it.

Now, whenever she begs for bits of french fry, I say to her, "You know all those nickels you turned your nose up at? Well, you could've bought your own damn bag of french fries!"

Dumb cat!

--Rob