As hinted in the title, the passcode is the customer's SSN plus one digit supplied by US Sprint. Now all the bad guys need is a sharp set of ears or a microphone in the phone booth and they have us by the <insert name of whatever organs you hold near and dear to your heart>. I hope this idiotic passcode scheme dies a quick, horrible death. Maybe I misunderstood or the reporter got it wrong (a permutation on the SSN is little better, though), but I don't think so.
ObRant about the dangers of giving out one's SSN deleted for brevity.
I can, at least, assure you that we internet engineering types are not as foolish as our voice counterparts. Also, marketing is an evil thing. ObCaveat: I speak for myself, my data brethren, and not for US Sprint. ____________________________________________________________________________ Paul Ferguson Sprint Managed Router Network Engineering tel: 703.904.2437 Herndon, Virginia USA internet: ferguson@icp.net