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  • So? (Score:5, Informative)

    by Crash Gordon ( 233006 ) on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:14PM (#61294860)

    In several states your driver's license number is created entirely from publicly available information; to wit (e.g. in Illinois): First, middle, last names, birth date, and gender. If I know these things about you, I can accurately generate your Illinois driver's license number. So there's no particular reason to steal the numbers from a website.

    The names are soundex-ed which is not perfectly reversible, but the birthdate and gender can be extracted from the license number.

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