• mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    The SSN itself is limited to under 1 billion possible permutations anyway because the format is 9 total digits. (3 digits hyphen 2 digits hyphen 4 digits.)

    And if I recall they also have something weird with the state you were born roughly corresponding to which 3 digit prefix you’re issued. Obviously that isn’t purely true either because that would only give you about 1 million unique numbers per prefix.

    Either way they’ve gotta be close to the theoretical maximum of the format without recycling numbers.