• franzfurdinand@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    They’re sequential, so the values above and below yours are valid SSNs of people born in the same hospital around the same time.

    This would make it trivially easy to get access to records you shouldn’t

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      Isn’t that assuming you have access to doing arbitrary SQL queries on the database? Then you’d by definition have access to records you shouldn’t.