Reincarnation Machine

[Misfit]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...rnation_machine_find_out_your_past_lives.html

Who might you have been in a past life? To help you find out, we scraped tens of thousands of people from Wikipedia and built the Reincarnation Machine. Type in your birth date, and the machine will match you to somebody who died on your birth date or close to it.

 

[limblips]

Sure, I'll give you my birth date. Would you like my SSN, credit card numbers, banking accounts too?

 

[Misfit]

Sure, I'll give you my birth date. Would you like my SSN, credit card numbers, banking accounts too?

What’s the difference between an SSN and a birthdate?

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Spoiler

18,356,000 people have the same birthdate.

 

[limblips]

Do you not get the concept of collecting enough seemingly innocent information, combining it and achieving a possible ID theft? Happens all the time.

 

[Vivian]

Seems interesting, worth checking.

 

[vraiblonde]

How cool!