Issues, again

We have a policy that needs changing. Yes, I'm still talking about my SSN, because even though I have no idea how an ID thief uses my SSN, I know that if they have it their work is pretty much done. We need to change how easily our SSNs are attainable. Now, as far as teh reasoning behind this goes, I'm sure that it was simply a lack of thought put in to it. Anyone who had thought twice about the topic certainly would have said "hmm, maybe there's a better way to do this." Why doesn't USC, like most other schools, assign a randomly generated ID number to all students? Would that be so hard. I have a basic, half semester high school web design class under my belt, and I could design a program that could do it. And if that is even too much work for you, you can at absolute least use the same 3 digits of your SSN to post anything. It's a lot easier to guess 1 number than 6, in the right order.

Now I'm going to go devil's advocate on myself.

Using SSNs as student ID's is that much cheaper, also, at this point it would be impractical to begin to change every student's ID number. Also, the amount of effort needed to steal your identity (There's three whole steps involved! Read last five digits off someone's test, read first three in russel house, guess at number #4, ok. Back to devil's advocate now) is just too much to make it worth an identity thief's while. Not to mention, it could take as many as 10 guesses to get the number right, not to mention the necessity to test all 10 of those guesses. Wow. That is a lot of work!