Another minor inconvenience ...
Posted on 12/30/2013 7:13:08 AM PST by Zakeet
Complete Headline: Laptop containing Social Security numbers of South Carolina Health Insurance Pool members stolen in October
Officials with the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool are investigating the theft of a laptop that contained Social Security numbers and names of people participating in the program, which provides insurance to people with pre-existing conditions.
(Excerpt) Read more at postandcourier.com ...
Another minor inconvenience ...
AGAIN?
All 7 of em?
These pre-existing orgs are different from Obama Care. I happen to be very familiar with this type of organization. The one I’m familiar with uses BitLock drive encryption which takes ‘Easy to Hack’ out of the equation. Needless to say the press will report this with the same expertise and accuracy they do with firearms.
Get ready for the lie...
“No personal information has been comprimised. The laptop was encrypted.”
The owner used his personal birthdate as the password. All is well, and obamacare is safest uber alles.
The NSA's 50-Page Catalog Of Back Door Penetration Techniques Revealed
If its encrypted they don’t usually bother reporting it. But I’ve seen numerous organizations lie
BitLocker is hashed and salted with Microsoft algorithms, and there are known NSA techniques that have revealed Microsoft’s proprietary format is not safe over, say, OpenSSL.
OpenSSL, IMO, is the least prone to government interference at the algorithmic level.
Why would you put sensitive data on an unsecured laptop that could be lost or stolen...ditto for storing such data on flash drives. IMHO such data should only be stored encrypted on secure servers with access limited by using secure passwords and available only to those needing the data.
If someone needs access to sensitive information from a laptop, then the information itself should be on a secure server and accessed through a VPN and a 15 or 20 character password. Anything less is stupid beyond comprehension.
“AGAIN?”
Our credit has been completely locked down for TWO years...every since the SC DOR was hacked and my entire family’s SS#’s were stolen.
SC provided free credit monitoring but we took the added steps of not allowing ANY new credit accounts to be approved thru the 3 major credit bureaus.
Still, there’s other damage that could be done with that info, I guess. If the bad guys were really vicious, they could sign me up for Obamacare.
Don’t worry. You can trust thefelons and ex ACORN workers with your most intimate medical information.
Personally. I trust the thief who stole this laptop more yyan any of the obamatons running obamacare.
bump
Yeah, if they follow something similar to DoD “data-at-rest” requirements, then they should (might, maybe) be OK.
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