You look into the keys of the database, not enough SSN’s! There are duplicates!

Posted byB McGrawPosted inArticles

It’s pretty obvious, there are nearly 350 million Americans and only 9 digits in a social security number, there’s no way that our database could possibly account for all Americans. You write a quick script and find a ton of duplicates across the system. This feels like obvious fraud! One hour on the job and you’re about to save the US government billions of dollars as a 21-year-old. This is gonna look great on your resume.

You are surprised to see that there are so many duplicate social security numbers! Is this amateur hour? What do you do?

Report it as something suspicious to Elon

Don’t report it and move on to something else, they’re probably key-ing off of something other than just a SSN

Published by B McGraw

B McGraw has lived a long and successful professional life as a software developer and researcher. After completing his BS in spaghetti coding at the department of the dark arts at Cranberry Lemon in 2005 he wasted no time in getting a masters in debugging by print statement in 2008 and obtaining his PhD with research in screwing up repos on Github in 2014. That's when he could finally get paid. In 2018 B McGraw finally made the big step of defaulting on his student loans and began advancing his career by adding his name on other people's research papers after finding one grammatical mistake in the Peer Review process.

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