Now I feel ancient. If you ran our highschool ID cards through a magstripe reader it would display your SSN.
There was a huge problem a few friends and I caused our first year there when we got bored in the computer lab. Every student account on a school computer had a folder named PUBLIC. Out of curiosity we dug down a few folders and found the txt file that was referenced by the simple visual basic program the IT guy wrote for class scheduling. That program used your name and SSN as login credentials. So there was a txt file that was simply a list of everyone's name and SSN for it to reference.
We being the idiots we are copied the file because it was a public folder anyone could access. The only reason we didn't get expelled was because one of the kids had a lawyer father who threatened to go public about them being that irresponsible with our data.
When I was in college SSNs were still used as our ID numbers. Every dept had folders in the hall outside the office for each student. They'd put grades out in those folders. Guess what was printed on those grades.
If you had a mag stripe writer you could grab a random person's grades, encode their SSN on a student ID, and then use the card to buy stuff on campus.
There was a huge problem a few friends and I caused our first year there when we got bored in the computer lab. Every student account on a school computer had a folder named PUBLIC. Out of curiosity we dug down a few folders and found the txt file that was referenced by the simple visual basic program the IT guy wrote for class scheduling. That program used your name and SSN as login credentials. So there was a txt file that was simply a list of everyone's name and SSN for it to reference.
We being the idiots we are copied the file because it was a public folder anyone could access. The only reason we didn't get expelled was because one of the kids had a lawyer father who threatened to go public about them being that irresponsible with our data.