Help for the new system manager

Mitch Collinsworth mitch at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu
Thu Jun 8 06:11:26 AEST 1989


In article <1181 at garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> kline at tuna.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline) writes:
>Please don't propagate the misuse of social security numbers in this way.
>They're not supposed to be used for identification (it says so right on
>your card), and using them as logins is quite the invasion of privacy.

Gee, it doesn't say that on my card.  But I still agree that using the SSN
for an ID is a dumb thing to do.  I hope they get all sorts of grief from
their users over that.

-Mitch Collinsworth
 mitch at squid.tn.cornell.edu



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