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Richard Nixon's Social Security Number
(idea) by The Custodian (4.1 hr) (print) ? 7 C!s Thu Jun 21 2001 at 1:54:33


This node is written in honor of various rabble-rousing publications that, in the past, have proffered suggestions on how to best screw with The Man. It also is meant to emphasize a completely personal peeve that I have regarding the intrusion of Big Brother into far too many aspects of my American life.
Social Security Numbers. Your serial number. Your ID Code. Your asset tag. Whatever. The U.S. Government, through the prima facie motive of being able to provide for you in time of need, has (in the process) created a mechanism by which any organization, good, evil, or completely venal, can uniquely identify you. This makes the Men In Black File Clerk's job so much easier! Furthermore, there is almost no way (other than being foreign, and even then they getcha with a Taxpayer I.D. Number) to escape its evil clutches. Want to go to college? Fork over your serial number. Want a bank account? Ditto. Want to simply receive medical care, even if paying with cash? Bend over for the Big Hot Iron Stamp, please.

So what can we do?

As suggested by several publications, prophets and pundits, I endeavor to jam the system whenever possible. Join me! It's fun! Next time someone asks you for your SSN for what you perceive to be no good reason (like, say, those supermarket discount cards that track your capitalist participation track record) then smile sweetly...

...and give them Richard Nixon's. It's <removed>


http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1085308

How much trouble can you get into for doing this?

...

As suggested by several publications, prophets and pundits, I endeavor to jam the system whenever possible. Join me! It's fun! Next time someone asks you for your SSN for what you perceive to be no good reason (like, say, those supermarket discount cards that track your capitalist participation track record) then smile sweetly...

...and give them Richard Nixon's. It's <removed>.


http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1085308

ROFLMAO!!!! YES!!!

Er... at a supermarket? None really. IRS? Big time.

that will be done later today. I promise.

So, we should use Nixon SS #? It won't work, when a person is deceased, their numbers end with that life, and any attempt for you to use that number will result in a dead end and possibly jail time for identity theaft.

So, we should use Nixon SS #? It won't work, when a person is deceased, their numbers end with that life, and any attempt for you to use that number will result in a dead end and possibly jail time for identity theaft.

well, if they have nothing to identify you with except for an unusable ssn, then they can't really catch you, can they?

So, we should use Nixon SS #? It won't work, when a person is deceased, their numbers end with that life, and any attempt for you to use that number will result in a dead end and possibly jail time for identity theaft.
Nixon lives on in the numbers.

So, we should use Nixon SS #? It won't work, when a person is deceased, their numbers end with that life, and any attempt for you to use that number will result in a dead end and possibly jail time for identity theaft.
From what I understand, they reuse the damn things after a certain amount of time.

How much trouble can you get into for doing this?

Richard Nixon's Social Security Number
(idea) by The Custodian (4.1 hr) (print) ? 7 C!s Thu Jun 21 2001 at 1:54:33


This node is written in honor of various rabble-rousing publications that, in the past, have proffered suggestions on how to best screw with The Man. It also is meant to emphasize a completely personal peeve that I have regarding the intrusion of Big Brother into far too many aspects of my American life.
Social Security Numbers. Your serial number. Your ID Code. Your asset tag. Whatever. The U.S. Government, through the prima facie motive of being able to provide for you in time of need, has (in the process) created a mechanism by which any organization, good, evil, or completely venal, can uniquely identify you. This makes the Men In Black File Clerk's job so much easier! Furthermore, there is almost no way (other than being foreign, and even then they getcha with a Taxpayer I.D. Number) to escape its evil clutches. Want to go to college? Fork over your serial number. Want a bank account? Ditto. Want to simply receive medical care, even if paying with cash? Bend over for the Big Hot Iron Stamp, please.

So what can we do?

As suggested by several publications, prophets and pundits, I endeavor to jam the system whenever possible. Join me! It's fun! Next time someone asks you for your SSN for what you perceive to be no good reason (like, say, those supermarket discount cards that track your capitalist participation track record) then smile sweetly...

...and give them Richard Nixon's. It's CENSORED.


http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1085308Doesn't this fall under fraud and ID Theft?

and if so, isn't the fact that you're encouraging others to follow suite an Insta-deat offense?

From what I understand, they reuse the damn things after a certain amount of time.

Well in that case there would be a small child somewhere being punished for the sins of the Nixman.

Well in that case there would be a small child somewhere being punished for the sins of the Nixman.
I wonder if it hurts that kids credit ratings...

Doesn't this fall under fraud and ID Theft?

and if so, isn't the fact that you're encouraging others to follow suite an Insta-deat offense?
I wouldn't go that far. From what it seems to me, this is public knowledge. If a mod wants me to remove the number, I will.

I wouldn't go that far. From what it seems to me, this is public knowledge. If a mod wants me to remove the number, I will.
it's not your SSN#. someone may have posted it, but that doesn't make it right for you to use it.

I would ask the mods first.

it's not your SSN#. someone may have posted it, but that doesn't make it right for you to use it.

I would ask the mods first.
Done.

This is a bad idea. It's possibly illegal and puts Max's site at risk. If somebody wants to google some other site that is willing to take the risk, that's fine. We're not.

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