Another School Exposes Private Information

DutchSter writes "In the wake of other schools announcing the theft of hardware containing sensitive student information, Miami University, of Oxford, Ohio, has announced that a file containing the name, Social Security number, the grade point average for the Fall 2002 semester, cumulative grade point average, and other related academic information, such as credit hours attempted that semester, for all 21,000 students who attended the Fall 2002 term has been available on a web server for the last three years. The discovery was made this week and the university is taking steps to deal with the fall-out sure to come."

Comments

Re:Just say 'No' to giving schools the SSN

[Liam Slider]

Yes, we should use the SSN the way it was originally intended to be used. It was never intended to be used as a form of ID. Not only that, but when it was instituted the people of the United States were assured it would never be such. And yet today....the SSN has basically been made into a form of ID, required by many unrelated government agencies...as well as private parties. It's governmental feature creep, and a damn good example of why governments should be kept weak, subservient, and on a short leash.

This is what happens...

[The Spoonman]

...when your HR department is told "all potential candidates MUST have MCSEs!" You end up with a bunch of morons who can barely SPELL "NT", let alone administer any machines.