[81117] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stanford Hack Exposes 10,000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Wed May 25 20:45:06 2005
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 00:43:41 GMT
To: adam@flounder.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Everything is new again.
- ferg
-- Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:28:32AM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> I really didn't mean to start an off-topic rat-hole discussion,
> but instead, point out how bad (nonchalant, cavalier) site security
> has become with reagards to storing sensitive information.
Has it really 'gotten' bad or just been that way all along? I don't know how
the security was where you went to college, but at my school, people's SSN's
were posted up on grading sheets for all to see. The names were missing, but
still, you could easily get them just by watching people check their grades.
--Adam
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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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