[81113] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stanford Hack Exposes 10,000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Wed May 25 20:18:02 2005
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:49:06 +0930
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050526001218.GF24470@flounder.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:12:18PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:59:17PM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> > Yet another unfortunate disclosure...
> > http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163701121
>
> I wonder when schools are going to get the hint and stop using SSN's as ID
> numbers..
Around about whenever the US Federal Government gets the hint and
passes a bill which makes it illegal to use social security numbers
for any purpose other than the administration of social security.
- mark
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