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California discloses massive ID theft
IDG News Service ^ | October 20, 2004 | Paul Roberts

Posted on 10/21/2004 2:32:37 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative

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To: Paleo Conservative
A) For sure the folks working in the place are Dem fanatics.....

B) with no moral scruples.....

C) Who believe the world will end if W is re-elected.

....it's hard to imagine that they haven't thought of vote fraud............

41 posted on 10/21/2004 8:27:15 PM PDT by cookcounty (Kerry launched his career by trashing the VN Vets. He ends by trashing the NG. Such class.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Stolen ? more likely sold !


42 posted on 10/21/2004 8:31:34 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Want to know why I don't vote Democrat?" http://www.museumofleftwinglunacy.com)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Oh, of course. This is just a one-time thing. Just a temporary minor setback; nothing to see here, just move along. We need to just fix it and get on with collecting and cataloguing every piece of data we can find on everyone on the entire planet and linking it to a Federal National ID database so it will be working properly when Hitlary hands it over to the UN in 2015. Yeah... that's it...


43 posted on 10/21/2004 8:37:53 PM PDT by fire_eye (Socialism is the opiate of academia.)
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To: Robert_Paulson2

As long as the ID Card and Database are primary, it will be comprimised. These things don't make anyone safer but they do provide more opportunity for fraud.

When someone dies, who (and how) are the databases updated?


44 posted on 10/21/2004 8:40:00 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic

When the guy in charge of the database passwords, and root administrator get caught snorting coke by a democrat operative, or a criminal 'inside guy', how are they NOT going to spill their 'special knowlege' to stay out of jail?

things need to be localized.
that way, the localization acts as a quarantine zone to the kind of abuse that could bring down a nation.

A dislocalized transportation security system, is what kept al quaeida from launching a uniformly designed (to fit a centralized uniform security system, like we are developing now), universally applicable system of attack.
The more uniform and centralized a system is, the easier it is to attack. The distributed and non uniform structure of a system, makes it harder to attack at one point with but one guaranteed method of operation.

Centralized security, is an invitation to disaster.


45 posted on 10/21/2004 8:50:15 PM PDT by Robert_Paulson2 ("every body is vulnerable, from 500 yards out")
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To: Doctor Stochastic
When someone dies, who (and how) are the databases updated?

well, with data distributed everywhere, it will never be truly updated, will it?

They can just assign the file to a newborn. It will be "instant karma."

46 posted on 10/21/2004 9:40:11 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: StrictTime
Voter fraud....

What you want to be 100% of the infirm and elderly are going to vote for Kerry this election. Good call.

47 posted on 10/22/2004 1:44:18 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Southack

Okay, but what's the alternative to Oracle? It's a very solid db system, able to handle LARGE datasets. I suspect that any popular software, like Windows as well, would suffer vulnerabilities given the complexity of the code, the assumptions made by one programmer or manager, and not another, and so on. Windows might be further crippled by both a lack of internal communication and the fact that a mere db would be something perhaps 15% of the total product by comparison (and realizing they do have a separate 'office' suite). But I keep saying that if Linux became a widely supported and easy to install OS for a 'PC-clone' child purchased at Fry's for $400 less monitor that it, too, might suddenly seem vulnerable as thieves turn their attention that way, as well.


48 posted on 10/22/2004 4:41:20 AM PDT by sevry
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To: Paleo Conservative; Allan; Shermy
What possible justification is there for providing social security numbers (or other personal information) to researchers?

It seems to me that that is where the primary fault lies. Any system can be compromised, but why were researchers given this information in the first place?

49 posted on 10/22/2004 8:17:27 AM PDT by Mitchell
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To: Southack

Whoreacle lending support to the rats again.

Just think of all the illegal voters that this list will generate.


50 posted on 10/22/2004 8:54:08 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps stop Rathering to America? Answer: NEVER!)
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To: GeronL

"Incredibly, but coincidentally, all of them have already voted absentee for John Kerry."

Yep, including those who died this past year.



51 posted on 10/22/2004 8:55:54 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps stop Rathering to America? Answer: NEVER!)
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To: Mitchell
What possible justification is there for providing social security numbers (or other personal information) to researchers?

Planned "failure." IOW, how to get the valuables and cover your tracks? Inside job.

52 posted on 10/22/2004 10:35:58 AM PDT by Shermy
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