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Website Posts Partial SSNs of Politicians in Protest

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the alliteration-never-gets-old dept.

John3 writes "The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights has posted partial Social Security numbers for several California politicians to protest their vote against pending privacy legislation. According to a San Francisco Chronicle story, the SSNs were purchased on the Internet for $26." Now there's an effective way of showing the problems of the status quo.

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  1. Troll posts useragent in protest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux 2.4.20-norman-3; X11; i686; )

  2. Linux ported to slashcode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux version 2.4.21-slashdot.org (Jamie@macarthy.vg) (gcc version 3.4.0) #1 Sun Jun 22 22:00:06 EST 2003
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    BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
    BIOS-e820: 000000000fff3000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI data)
    BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
    BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
    BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
    255MB LOWMEM available.
    On node 0 totalpages: 65520
    zone(0): 4096 pages.
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    Initializing CPU#0
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  3. America... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Truly an American icon. We hardly knew her.