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Re: Stanford Hack Exposes 10,000

  • From: Joel Jaeggli
  • Date: Thu May 26 10:46:26 2005 
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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