Posted on 06/25/2015 10:02:35 AM PDT by Zakeet
Infidelity. Sexual fetishes. Drug abuse. Crushing debt. They’re the most intimate secrets of U.S. government workers. And now they’re in the hands of foreign hackers.
It was already being described as the worst hack of the U.S. government in history. And it just got much worse.
A senior U.S. official has confirmed that foreign hackers compromised the intimate personal details of an untold number of government workers. Likely included in the hackers’ haul: information about workers’ sexual partners, drug and alcohol abuse, debts, gambling compulsions, marital troubles, and any criminal activity.
Those details, which are now presumed to be in the hands of Chinese spies, are found in the so-called “adjudication information” that U.S. investigators compile on government employees and contractors who are applying for security clearances. The exposure suggests that the massive computer breach at the Office of Personnel Management is more significant and potentially damaging to national security than officials have previously said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Not meaning to be contrary, but why are government employees sex lives kept on government computers? Am I missing something?
The hackers did not get current email info -— they got all of the personnel files, probably including the FBI background checks, the security clearance background info, divorce info, which includes infidelities and other such stuff.
I don’t think it is explained why it is on a government computer. It is only detailed.
There is no acceptable excuse for keeping such information on a government computer.
Exspouses, teachers, former boses, old lovers, etc are all questioned. The information is recorded and stored.
Funny!
Everything is now stored on computer. Even your personal info. A gubmint computer.
But it does not to be kept on a computer or a server.
A series of hard drives or flash drives in a vault, that’s one thing.
But leaving them online for easy access??? There’s no excuse for that.
“Obama already did this, he clearly has something on Roberts and the GOP leaders. Afterall, Hastert was blackmailed, I’m sure current leaders are being blackmailed as we speak.”
True. I assume “someone” has something(s) on bathhouse Barry as well.
Here’s the thing: this information was compiled to see who had vulnerabilities to blackmail, etc, and shouldn’t receive a security clearance.
Apparently, we were just noting these vulnerabilities and giving them security clearances anyway?
In my enlisted years, I was an intel specialist. No way we’d leave documents lying around for other to look at.
This is the same thing for the computer era. If it’s classified, then it’s under lock and key until an authorization comes down for it to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. There’s no acceptable reason why that still isn’t the case.
yeah and who says the hack was a foreign entity.... OUR GOVERNMENT... when did they start telling the TRUTH...???????
“Infidelity. Sexual fetishes. Drug abuse. Crushing debt. They’re the most intimate secrets of U.S. government workers. And now they’re in the hands of foreign hackers.”
KEY:”secrets of U.S. government workers.”
For some reason, I feel no sympathy at all about this.
Lois Lerner and the IRS? FEC? SEC? FCC? BATF?
No nothing at all. Not even the DOJ.
You don’t think a government computer should be a dating site?
What do you think is happening with Obamacare records?
Maybe it is...
It raises those questions, but it does not “beg” them.
“If the employees have dirt or kinkiness in their sex lives, why were they hired to begin with?”
For the control. The only way a RINO or a liberal can
get on the ballot is to be compromised. Same with
GeMPS (government employees) who attain a high level
of incompetence.
It should, of course, be the same thing. However, the truth is that the records of our military and CIA, etc., are national security issues and the fix of locked data storage is too easy to do. We all know that.
Personally, I’d prefer every record require a release from the involved citizen for each access to that record.
Agent 007, however, should be a little harder to get to. (Mrs. Moneypenny does...but only in her dreams.)
“You should read the article, it is explained.”
Good advice.
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I think we the people are experiencing what is refered to as an “aha” moment. There are somewhere near 250 various agencies of the US government that collect data on us. How can homeland security keep us safe without having all of our personal info at their fingertips? To quote Bruce Willis, welcome to the party, pal.
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