From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 27 16:53:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01AD637B403 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:53:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f5RNrIK31035; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:53:18 -0700 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:53:18 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Brad Knowles Cc: Jamie Bowden , "G. Adam Stanislav" , Mark Murray , dan@langille.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: US checking accounts for non-US residents Message-ID: <20010627165318.A30006@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="liOOAslEiF7prFVr" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:27:15PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:27:15PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > This is one reason I was really happy when I moved to Maryland,=20 > and found that they issued their own license numbers, which I believe=20 > was based on a soundex code from your last name, plus perhaps some=20 > other identifying information. I think most states do this or something similar. Apparently, many of them forgot something rather important though. They encode a whole bunch of information in the number, but don't actually make sure it's unique. There are some states where a few numbers hve 3-4 people sharing them. Drivers license numbers are used for some forms of credit and similar checks so this can be is a really serious problem. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7OnHtXY6L6fI4GtQRAltBAKC1rczdt3MlXFKCWA0sw93iZXgDlQCgiad4 0e54mSKosMJSiXJEPzY6RWw= =iG/O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message