Anne and everybody else, I don't know what it is with me, but I have decided everybody knows my Social security number anyway, I don't care, like everybody knows all my ailments, even the eye operations when i was 6 year old. If they want to get my inner life, they already have it. Maybe I am old and know I have little time to worry, maybe I have established myself with my banks by going in and showing them my face, maybe I believe they don't really want my identity because there is not much to gain, maybe I think it would just by a chance so far removed as winning the Lotto, that I don't care giving out my SSN, but I have given up long ago worrying about that at all.
I also believe they want to scare you into this ID theft thing to sell you insurance for it as they do with any other thing, so I am telling myself, if indeed I would be a victim, a one in many a million chances, I , in my stance of determination, would be able to conquer that . And, BTW, Anne, you could, though, go to a AT&T store and pay cash, couldn't you? Of course that I would never do- I feel the cash could get lost easier. I do everything by credit card, but then all banks require SSNs when opening accounts and issue credit cards. I don't know whether you ever get around giving it out. Privacy has gone out of our lives- if anybody wants to get at you you are game. Marta On Oct 27, 2007, at 10:37, Anne Cartwright wrote: > Marta was having so much fun with her iPhone I decided to buy one. > > However I guess I will be taking it back to the store because in order > to activate it you have to give AT & T your social security number > and I > am very reluctant to do so. Especially when I don't really see any > reason for them to have it. I called AT & T and the first operator > said > there was no other way, but then she said that there was a prepay > plan, > would I be willing to use that. That is exactly what I wanted. In > fact I > would be willing to prepay the whole two years. So she connected me > with > the operator who handles prepay. Guess what? You have to give them > your > social security number and fail the credit check before you can > prepay! > > So I guess no iPhone for me. > > Anne Cartwright > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be October 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >
