Re: 'Little Red Book' Draws Government's Attention

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On December 18, 2005 12:18:38 PM -0600 Troy Solo <solo () dok org> wrote:

> Universities routinely use the SSN as a "Student ID Number", so it would
> "make sense" (haha) to provide your SSN when checking out a book.
Although we use SSNs as the key in the db, we do not use them for anything 
else.  That's about to change.  We're in the early stages of an ERP project 
that will eliminate the use of SSNs for anything but financial aid 
applications (where it's required) and payroll (for obvious reasons.)

When you check a book out at our library, you use your ID card which uses 
an ISO 9000 number.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/
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