Is it safe to send your SSN in a text message?

Question

I need to get my sisters social security number from my parents, is it safe to have them text it?

Answer 1

lmao

Remember how to *talk*?

Answer 2

No. CALL THEM and please use a land line.

Frankly, there is no reason I can think of that would require you to need your sister's social security number.  If it is to get a lease, then she should be there filling out the form.

Answer 3

sweetie, don't do it. please what ever you do just dont send it out . ask them to call you.

Answer 4

Everything that gets transmitted electronically can be captured if

1. someone is out looking for it

2. you send it without encryption

Since texts are rarely, if ever, encrypted, and since the signal continues in all directions from the source, if someone is trying to capture sensitive info, this is about the least logical way to send anything.  

Think about in National Treasure 2 where the antagonists cloned the cell phone and intercepted the call (sent to that number) despite being on a different continent.  Kind of far-fetched, but possible.

Use an analog phone line which, although it may be tapped, does not entitled folks at the NSA without a warrant to use anything they find out about US Citizens.