Everything is new again. - ferg -- Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:28:32AM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

I really didn't mean to start an off-topic rat-hole discussion, but instead, point out how bad (nonchalant, cavalier) site security has become with reagards to storing sensitive information.

Has it really 'gotten' bad or just been that way all along? I don't know how the security was where you went to college, but at my school, people's SSN's were posted up on grading sheets for all to see. The names were missing, but still, you could easily get them just by watching people check their grades. --Adam -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/