Your Social Security # might be floating around the internet /IRC ...

In article <[email protected]>,
John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:


>
> In <[email protected]> on Thu, 13 Jan
> 2005 23:55:04 GMT, Jack Zwick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >In article <[email protected]>,
> > Sarah Tanembaum <[email protected]> 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?

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Jack Zwick wrote:
>
> In article <[email protected]>,
> John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > In <[email protected]> on Thu, 13 Jan
> > 2005 23:55:04 GMT, Jack Zwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >In article <[email protected]>,
> > > Sarah Tanembaum <[email protected]> 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

I assume you are referencing the hack into to T Mobile.

Jack Zwick wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > In <[email protected]> on Thu,
13 Jan
> > 2005 23:55:04 GMT, Jack Zwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >In article <[email protected]>,
> > > Sarah Tanembaum <[email protected]> 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?

Notan wrote:

> Jack Zwick wrote:
>>
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > In <[email protected]> on Thu, 13
>> > Jan 2005 23:55:04 GMT, Jack Zwick <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > >In article <[email protected]>,
>> > > Sarah Tanembaum <[email protected]> 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?

???? Querying Google using your social security number as a key is a bit
different from posting it on USENET where anybody with Internet access can
see it and it is archived forever.

For all you know Osama Bin Laden has just gotten a much needed laugh out of
your post.

> Notan

--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

In article <[email protected]>,
"J. Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Notan wrote:
>
> > Jack Zwick wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <[email protected]>,
> >> John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > In <[email protected]> on Thu, 13
> >> > Jan 2005 23:55:04 GMT, Jack Zwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >In article <[email protected]>,
> >> > > Sarah Tanembaum <[email protected]> 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?
>
> ???? Querying Google using your social security number as a key is a bit
> different from posting it on USENET where anybody with Internet access can
> see it and it is archived forever.
>
> For all you know Osama Bin Laden has just gotten a much needed laugh out of
> your post.
>
> > Notan

My father had a problem with his social security #


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In <[email protected]> on Fri, 14 Jan
2005 13:03:41 GMT, Jack "CHICKEN LITTLE" Zwick <[email protected]> wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
> John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In <[email protected]> on Thu, 13 Jan
>> 2005 23:55:04 GMT, Jack Zwick <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <[email protected]>,
>> > Sarah Tanembaum <[email protected]> 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.

--
Best regards,
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>

"A little learning is a dangerous thing." [Alexander Pope]
"It is better to sit in silence and appear ignorant,
than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." [Mark Twain]

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In <[email protected]> on Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:57:25 -0500, "J.
Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Notan wrote:
>
>> Jack Zwick wrote:
>>>
>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>> John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > In <[email protected]> on Thu, 13
>>> > Jan 2005 23:55:04 GMT, Jack Zwick <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >In article <[email protected]>,
>>> > > Sarah Tanembaum <[email protected]> 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?
>
>???? Querying Google using your social security number as a key is a bit
>different from posting it on USENET where anybody with Internet access can
>see it and it is archived forever.

Transmitting your SSN in the clear over the public Internet to a public search
engine is indeed different, but is still a really bad idea. Among many other
reasons, Google searches aren't private.

--
Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>