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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