[plug] Computer insecurity

[Trevor Phillips]

Andrew Francis wrote:
> 
> I really, really wish Curtin would adopt some sort of serious approch to
> security in this area. For crying out loud, my student card has my name,
> date of birth and student number on it in an easy-to-steal form.. all it's
> missing is my phone number, of which the last four digits are used as a
> PIN in some situations.

Really? Murdoch's Student PINs were based on Date of Birth.
One of the driving forces of the changeover to the "insecure" system (as some
have dubbed it) was to re-issue every student with a new PIN which isn't
deriveable, to increase security.

-- 
. Trevor Phillips             -           http://jurai.murdoch.edu.au/ . 
: CWIS Systems Administrator     -           T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au : 
| IT Services                       -               Murdoch University | 
 >------------------- Member of the #SAS# & #CFC# --------------------<
| On nights such as this, evil deeds are done. And good deeds, of     /
| course. But mostly evil, on the whole.                             /
 \      -- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters)                          /