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Sat Sep 10 18:01:35 EDT 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-September/331273.html

Kirk Job Sluder wrote:
> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:
> 
>>Kirk Job Sluder <kirk at jobsluder.net> writes:
>>We're told there is already a secure database in the picture
>>somewhere, or at least one that unescapeably contains cleartext SSN's,
>>so that's the system that should assign the ID numbers and handle
>>SSN-based queries.
> 
> Well, IMO just having cleartext SSNs is questionable practice unless you
> need those SSNs to report to some other agency that takes SSNs. 

Colleges generally do have such needs.

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 Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
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