Requiring users to type in their Social Security number as a password just doesn’t seem right. It’s even worse than it appears when an admin pretends that college security exists and the list of names and numbers actually resides in a public .txt file. “Nobody seemed to care that a simple fix could have kept the file hidden,” our Off the Record author reveals in A Tale of scholastic security. To this day, in fact, a list of Social Security numbers is still floating around. “I doubt any real harm will result, but there’s no question that the situation is not ideal. Future students who decide to play with this information may not be as harmless as we were.” Security