More SS hemorrhage -- Florida this time

The Socialist Surveillance Number was supposed to be so wonderfully handy. Think how much easier it made the IRS's (if you can call it that) work, but also how much fluidity it added to online shopping, bill paying etc. There's only one problem -- humanity can't be trusted with such a system:

http://www.amren.com/news/2013/02/florida-hit-by-tsunami-of-tax-identity-fraud/
Florida Hit by ‘Tsunami’ of Tax Identity Fraud

I've argued with many an employer over their right to demand an SSN, typically arguing from the need for privacy and our alarming ability to preserve it anymore -- and sincerely hope that they catch wind at least some of the cavalcade of news stories in which massive numbers of these cattle tags are stolen or leaked. If any of them lose privacy because of this phenomena personally, my heart bleeds for them, but may they at least hearken back once to the day that they scoffed.

If mailmen are getting gunned down for the purpose of blanket identity theft, it won't be long till we've got crime like Honduras has crime -- in both cases, significantly due to the no-win drug war.

........Here's a techno-ironical headline straight from the Twilight Zone. I'm not sure where to pigeonhole it, so add it here merely as a strange all-purpose anomaly:

http://tinyurl.com/aeg2lza
NYPD probes mysterious 911 calls from phone line belonging to Katie Couric's late husband

Twilight Zone theme music, please -- Huffington Post comes out on the people's side of the TSA war:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-elliott/its-the-beginning-of-the-_2_b_2187877.html
It's The Beginning Of The End For The TSA's Full-Body Scanners

More Twilight Zone music, please -- Katie actually looks human without all that paint on her face:

http://socialitelife.com/photos/celebrities-spotted-without-makeup-photos/exclusive-katie-couric-with-her-daughters-in-new-york-city

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