[81149] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stanford Hack Exposes 10,000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu May 26 13:50:38 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 19:50:04 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505261134490.4866@web1.mmaero.com> (Jon Lewis's
message of "Thu, 26 May 2005 11:45:29 -0400 (EDT)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Jon Lewis:
> How hard is it for a university to generate their own student "serial
> numbers" as students register?
It's probably hard to restructure your databases and rewrite most of
your software. 8-(
Of course, any unique identifier will do, but it's hard to make the
switch.
