From CNN:
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: If you think that only you and the government can obtain personal information like your Social Security number, think again. Not only is it easy for someone to find out your vital information, it's pretty cheap, too. For $26, a California watchdog group says as a kind of test they obtained the Social Security numbers of Attorney General John Ashcroft and CIA Director George Tenet online.
Personally, I couldn't care less about Ashcroft's and Tenet's personal privacy, as neither of them seem to care much about mine (or anyone else's). But the story is still a bit disturbing, especially given the apparent prevalence of identity theft.