The Security Mentor

This is a guy who keeps one of the biggest and most chaotic networks on the planet running. He understands security.

MIT has been hunting down and eliminating places that store Social Security numbers.

Here's my favorite part of the Network World interview:

The fundamental problem behind all of this is that the SSN can be so easily abused. It’s easy to learn someone’s SSN yet it is viewed as a secret by many institutions so it can be used as an authenticator. This is broken. We need legislation that says anybody who makes decisions based on authentication, which is knowledge of an SSN and a home address, they’re taking the risk in the transaction, not the consumer.