a couple weeks ago i was watching msnbc or something and they had frank abignail(the catch me if you can guy) on and he said that anybody(doesn't require any hacking or anything) could track down someone's social security number in about 10 minutes on the internet. he went on to say that whether you get your identity stolen or not is basically a lottery because of this and i think they did some kind of activity where they tracked down some dirt on the host of the show(possibly his ssn, i dont remember it too well).

well, my dad and i decided to try and see what we could come up with on him since frank abignail said it was so prevalent and anybody could do it, and we came up with nothing, but then again we didnt have much of an idea where to start from or what to look for. so, are things really as bad as this guy claims? i cant imagine companies or the government just posting something like my ssn out on a web page somewhere, i cant even think of a reason that they would need to.