RE: University of South Carolina e-Mail Compromises Student IDs

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 SSN should only be used for Income related items, between yourself, your employer and the government.  If I apply for 
a loan, they can have my SSN, credit card is a form of a loan.

  The DMV can go pound sand, no SSN from this guy, give me a Driver's license number in that case...

 No need for a SSN to buy a house, or anythign else, just pay cash :-)  Yes you can get a job without a SSN as well, 
never said it was easy.

  Mike B


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Dude VanWinkle
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 1:10 AM
To: Larry Seltzer
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] University of South Carolina e-Mail Compromises Student IDs

On 4/14/06, Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:
> > > So far, the school is not aware of any misuse of the information, but
> officials notified students of the lapse Monday and suggested they take
> precautions against identity theft.
>
> What precautions? Like not giving their social security numbers to entities
> that irresponsibly disseminate it?

 No choice about that. If you dont give away your SSN, you cant go to
school, you cant have a house, credit card, drivers license, or even a
job.

You can change your name, have your face resculpted, burn your
fingerprints off, all legally, but you cannot change your SSN.

-JP

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