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Date: Mon Apr 24 00:47:13 2006
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Re: Who Do I Contact?
--On April 23, 2006 3:11:40 PM +0100 "Dave \"No, not that one\" Korn"
<davek_throwaway@...mail.com> wrote:
>
> CM, my suggestion would be to phone up the Dean/Principal while he's in
> the middle of his sunday lunch and read out his SSN to him and tell him
> how he can go to his computer and see it for himself. Do it from a
> phonebox, tell him he really needs to bang heads together in the IT
> department *now*, tell him you haven't messed or tampered with it in any
> way and you just want it fixed because your own data is in there too
> (don't mention the parents!) then say you're sorry but you hope he'll
> understand why you don't want to identify yourself and ring off.
>
Depending upon which Dean you're referring to, this could little to no good
at all. The Dean might even think there's nothing wrong with SSNs being
exposed.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/
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