• Subject: RE: Rewarding challenge AS/400...
  • From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 10:09:01 -0700

I dunno--people sometimes do funny things when they dislike each other.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@genfast.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 9:05 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Rewarding challenge AS/400...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Brad,
> 
> In the context of users in an office voluntarily sharing 
> passwords (i.e., the
> password "book"), I would argue that JoeUser / JillUser isn't 
> about to go
> hacking through the AS/400 or other resources to get at their fellow
> officemate's social security number for the sole purpose of 
> signing on to the
> AS/400 using that person's user profile.  In that context, do 
> you suppose that
> users would add a column in that password book to add their 
> social security
> numbers?  I doubt it.  I know I wouldn't.
> 
> ________________________ Original Message _________________________
> 
> SSN is nothing special these days.  It isn't tough to get 
> anyone's number
> with a little work.  It's turned into something it was never 
> meant to be, a
> unique indentifier for an individual.
> 
> Mother's maiden name is also getting to be overused. They 
> should just make
> you type in your weight or something.  Since everyone lies 
> about this, using
> the ACTUAL weight would be something no one could find out.  ;)
> 
> Bradley V. Stone
> BVS/Tools
> http://www.bvstools.com
> 
> > David, Paul, et al,
> >
> > It's pretty bad when you have no support from corporate to enforce a
> > no-sharing-keep-it-private policy.
> >
> > How about this idea.  Immediately after signon, every user
> > has a startup program
> > that requires entry of their social security number, which
> > would be compared to
> > the Human Resources or Payroll employee file.  I doubt
> > there'd be many people
> > who'd want to share their SSN with their cow-orkers
> > (apologies to Dilbert).
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >
> > - Dan Bale
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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