[104852] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: amazonaws.com?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed May 28 14:41:12 2008
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:41:03 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <982D8D05B6407A49AD506E6C3AC8E7D626E4FBE470@caralain.haven.nynaeve.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:01:30PM -0500, Skywing wrote:
> That's somewhat ironic of a sentiment you referred to there, given
> that the conception that one should have to hand over one's SSN for
> "verification" to anyone who asks for it is the kind of thing that
> many of these spammers/phishers thrive on in the first place...
What...
are people still using SSNs as authenticators instead of identifiers,
20 years on?
Cheers,
-- jra
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