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epylar on Aug 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One brea...

It would be trivial to post every SSN online. There's maximum one billion numbers fitting that format. Store each number in 30 bits, that's about 3600 MiB of data.

colejohnson66 on Aug 7, 2019 [–]

It would also be highly compressible. So maybe 1-2 GB after compression?

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