Re: Stanford Hack Exposes 10,000

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () darkwing uoregon edu>]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> The major problem, as has been pointed out in Privacy and RISKS digests
> in the past dozens of times, is that people persist in using as
> authenticators things (like SSN's, Mother's Maiden Name, etc) which are
> patently not suitable for that.

pre-existing sources of of unabigious uniqueness that map to people are 
hard to come by...

fwiw, most universities that I'm aware of, have moved away from using 
ssn's as an authentication tool.

joelja

> Cheers,
> -- jra

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