Reply to post: Re: Confidential?

Who are the last people you'd expect to spill thousands of student records? A computer science dept? What a fantastic guess

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Re: Confidential?

In my day your test scores and grades were on a bulletin board outside the professor's office, but your name wasn't attached to it. Instead they used your student ID - which back then was your SSN!

Would have been pretty easy to steal the SSNs of people in class by:

1) if one person is known to be way smarter or way dumber than everyone else, look for the highest/lowest score

2) just hang around the bulletin board and watch people - about half of them will run their finger down the list of SSNs until they reach theirs and trace across. If you know their name, now you know their SSN.

If only scam artists knew how valuable someone's SSNs would be some day, they could have compiled lists of them back in their college days. As a bonus you'd know that everyone on your list is a college graduate, or more.

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