Want to be an MS-certified "engineer?" Your Social Security number, please

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

According to the page at

http://www.microsoft.com/mcp/certstep/examreg.htm

Microsoft requires anyone who registers to take its "certification" exams
to provide a social security number and "demographic" (i.e. personal)
information. Opting out of the "demographic" survey is not allowed.

Given this initial information, Microsoft could then find out anything else
it wanted to know about the candidate.

Hmmmm.

--Brett Glass