[81156] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stanford Hack Exposes 10,000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Vaughan)
Fri May 27 05:48:45 2005
From: Bob Vaughan <techie@tantivy.tantivy.net>
In-Reply-To: <87br6x3mib.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 02:47:57 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com,
nanog@merit.edu
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.
>
Stanford's student/faculty/staff ID system is not based on SSN's, and
it has been in place for a number of years. I don't think the previous
system was based on SSN's either.
Which brings up the question of why SSN's would be in the career center
database in the first place.
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