Holding true to the old saying “You learn something new everyday” I have officially learned something today. I was trolling the comments of this poll over at Slashdot when I ran accross this thread. It talks about how Social Security Numbers (SSN) are strictly regulated and that you DON’T have to give them out to everybody (including the phone company). I did a little investigating and found this statement to be true. The second post in that thread gives you “bogus” SSN’s that you can use – something I just might start using. Although I’m not sure what Ameritech will say when I call up and request to change my SSN …