27 January 1999 - Big Brother Outside

Alarmed by the broadening privacy concerns highlighted in the Intel Processor Serial Number episode, The United States Government will phase out the use of Social Security Numbers as universal serial numbers, officials announced. “We’re so embarrassed”, admitted the two-faced bureaucratic juggernaut. “All this time we thought we were a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. But it turned out we’d been infiltrated by corporate special interests.”