From: lyger (lygerattrition.org)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2006 - 10:17:11 CDT

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http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/15169992.htm

Posted on Tue, Aug. 01, 2006
By Sally Connell

Cal Poly has notified 3,020 current and former students that their names
and Social Security numbers were on a laptop computer stolen earlier this
month from a physics professor's San Luis Obispo home.

Cal Poly used names and Social Security numbers on class lists before
2004, according to Vicki Stover, campus information security officer.

The informational letter, which Cal Poly is required under state law to
distribute to those affected, went to students who took the physics and
astronomy lectures taught by physics professor John Mottman from 1994 to
2004.

Cal Poly is trying to change its practice of using Social Security numbers
as the main identifier for students, something that was once common in the
halls of higher education.

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