Posted on 06/21/2015 7:08:15 AM PDT by beebuster2000
Have you been following the hack story?
Chinese hackers compromised key US Govt database and stole the records of everyone who had a security clearance, including their SS number, and personal, medical, financial, and family and relative information. they also appear to have stolen similar data for most everyone who is, or who has been, a government employee.
The databases were unencrypted and not subject to any real security protection including the most basic intrusion detection systems. As reported, the security that is standard on an iPhone is superior to what the US Govt was using, in spite of having spent $65 billion on the topic. some of the data was not even behind a firewall.
This is the biggest attack on the US by a sovereign power since Pearl Harbor, and more damaging.
The level of incompetence revealed is beyond anything any of the critics of government could have imagined. We are truly unprotected, it is shocking, it is scary.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
hack?
or simply planned by the Army of Hasan run from
the White Mosque?
I see no reason to continue the five-year update requirement for everyone with a clearance. That should be discontinued and they review how to go forward. Maybe it’s time to discontinue the use of the SSN with all such records.
soetoro ain’t worried. All his stuff is fake anyway.
Given that our government is full of leftists and some who just love the power that despots have, it is not surprising at all that this was done. A motive? Maybe just another stunt try to give Obama control of the internet, like they tried with guns in Fast and Furious.
I feel no empathy with those who voted for Obama. They got what they voted for. Others who are going to be blackmailed, stalked, or possibly assassinated have my deepest prayers.
> even though the government has spent “at least $65 billion” since 2006 on protective measures.<
Wonder where/or to who that 65 billion actually went? My god the amount of thievery leveled against the taxpayers of this country is astonishing and mind blowing. And we sit here like fools allowing them to do it.
The U.S. Navy (and the DoD) has distributed the SSNs of its civilian employees onto multiple systems. At least one of these widely used systems was previously hacked and taken down for months, with zero explanation to employees outside of the news media sources (none from internal sources) about who, what, where, when, and why.
This is a U.S. civilian Navy which has long had its own internal means of identifying employees uniquely and verifying employee identity using Navy mechanisms. The U.S. Navy has ZERO internal need to know or ask for or use the employee’s SSN.
Remember: the SSN is an identification number created by an entirely separate federal agency from the Department of Defense. Why on earth does an agency the size of DoD hold and store and use ON A DAILY BASIS the SSNs of its civilian employees? There is ZERO good reason.
The U.S. Navy’s own policy claims regarding personal information declare in plain text that personal information shall not be used without a so-called “need-to-know.” This policy is violated every single day across the Navy civilian workforce, via the U.S. Navy’s unnecessary storage and use of civlian SSNs.
Thanks beebuster2000.
The Chinese are prepping for war, while the US is prepping its bathrooms for transgenders.
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