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Another PC with veterans' data missing
Cnet.com ^
| August 7, 2006
| Reuters
Posted on 08/07/2006 11:32:49 PM PDT by LuxMaker
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday that a desktop computer with personal data on as many as 38,000 U.S. military veterans had disappeared from Unisys, a subcontractor.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: laptop; reston; theft; unisys; va; veterans; virginia
How many times does this have to happen before a serious change occurs in the way we do things and most importantly recognize it for the problem that it is?
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posted on
08/07/2006 11:32:51 PM PDT
by
LuxMaker
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To: LuxMaker
A desktop? I can understand a laptop getting stolen but a Desktop? How can someone with even a mini-tower just simply walk out.... Do they just stap on the back and play it off like they are a hunch back???
Someone is paying someone off..
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posted on
08/08/2006 12:34:32 AM PDT
by
cdnerds
(cdnerds.com)
To: LuxMaker
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and its subcontractors need better security, but it's not going to happen. The bureaucracy is just too big, mismanaged, and incompetent.
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To: LuxMaker
What with the Internet and other networks, I don't see why the DVA's techies have to physically take data out of the building.
There's a manager, somewhere is the technical hierarchy of the DVA, that needs to be relieved of his or her duties.
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posted on
08/08/2006 2:16:26 AM PDT
by
Beckwith
(The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
To: LuxMaker
Maybe it should just be news when a PC gets stolen that DOES NOT have private veterans on it...
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To: driftdiver
I really need to start using /sarc on all my sarcastic posts.
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posted on
08/08/2006 3:39:05 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: vox humana
"The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and its subcontractors need better security, but it's not going to happen. The bureaucracy is just too big, mismanaged, and incompetent."
Whats ironic is that thru Sarbanes Oxley the govt has forced truly oppressive standards down to business. If we forced the govt to pass the same standards this probably wouldn't happen.
To: coconutt2000
"I really need to start using /sarc on all my sarcastic posts."
Either that or I need to have my coffee before posting. I missed that.
To: driftdiver
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:27:37 AM PDT
by
Caramelgal
(There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.)
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To: cdnerds
I think there is a misprint on the desktop. Other sources are reporting it is a laptop.
Still, there is a trend beginning. Companies/Organizations/Government that use laptop computing need to be thinking about security if they have not already.
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posted on
08/08/2006 4:46:45 AM PDT
by
southlake_hoosier
(.... One Nation, Under God.......)
To: cdnerds
Think about this - what is 38K veterans' names and other personal information worth to marketers? That already would be worth some pretty good money... BUT
What would 38K sets of info be worth to someone with FAR more ugly intentions (like ID theft)?
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:54:40 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of a Cancer on Society)
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