Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Is LifeLock CEO Todd Davis' social security number a good one to use in testing code that needs an SSN?

I'm really asking and it's famously: 457-55-5462

If you look up Mr. Davis on YouTube you can find an advertisement in which a truck drives around a city with his social security number painted on the side of it. This was a TV commercial in 2007 or 2008 or so meant to inspire confidence in his company's ability to protect SSN numbers from abuse. He advertised his own number. What is a better bit of dummy data to use if not this one. By the way I Googled if it was criminal for me to rebroadcast someone else's SSN and it seems not to be. I found: this

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