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You probably know Cambridge researchers got access to 50 million Facebook user profiles, then gave the data to a private political operation working on behalf of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. You can learn more from New York Times and Guardian stories. Adding fuel to the fire, Alex Stamos resigned his position as Facebook Chief Security Officer . With this breach, perhaps a thankless and difficult job became impossible. Congress threw more gasoline on the fire, as mem

If you were born before 2011, there’s a good chance I can guess your social security number (SSN). June 25, 2011 was when the Social Security Administration finally starting issuing random SSNs. But before then, they were surprising predictable. If you’re American, you’re asked for your xxx-xx-xxxx 9-digit SSN all the time. It’s the closest thing we have in this country to a national ID number. Your first three digits are a geographic location code (area number) based on