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From: mitch@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Help for the new system manager
Message-ID: <8139@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 89 20:11:26 GMT
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Reply-To: mitch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth)
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In article <1181@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> kline@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@squid.tn.cornell.edu