Posted Nov 11, 2012 17:10 UTC (Sun) by Baylink (subscriber, #755)
Parent article: Security quotes of the week
The problem isn't that math is hard (or even that so many female non-Danica McKellar fans just go shopping)...
the problem is that the SSN is an *IDENTIFIER*. Not an authenticator.
As long as we do not make it a federal crime to treat knowledge of an SSN as an authenticator, and put actual people in actual jails, we're going to continue to have this problem ad infinitum.
And I don't mean programmers. I mean project managers and CTOs; O-6 and above, please.