Practically all the employees in the place, for example, were using their Social Security number as the secret question for resetting their computer passwords. I tried to talk to my boss about how unsafe that was, but he blew me off. I thought for a minute about giving him a little demonstration of how easy it was to obtain anyone’s Social Security number, but then realized that would be a very bad idea. When I started writing scripts on the VMS system to solve some technical support problems, I was told that the project was beyond my job responsibilities, and I should quit working on it.