Stanford Hack Exposes 10,000

Mark Newton newton at internode.com.au
Thu May 26 00:19:06 UTC 2005


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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