[2ndDivisionVet]

Link to article:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/encryption-would-not-have-helped-at-opm-says-dhs-official/

[Steely Tom]

Of course not.

Nothing anyone could do. No one’s fault.

No one here is responsible.

The floors sure are waxed to a high shine every day though.

[StormEye]

" He asked Seymour pointedly about the legacy systems that had not been adequately protected or upgraded. Seymour replied that some of them were over 20 years old and written in COBOL, and they could not easily be upgraded or replaced. These systems would be difficult to update to include encryption or multi-factor authentication because of their aging code base, and they would require a full rewrite."

"Some of the contractors that have helped OPM with managing internal data have had security issues of their own—including potentially giving foreign governments direct access to data long before the recent reported breaches. A consultant who did some work with a company contracted by OPM to manage personnel records for a number of agencies told Ars that he found the Unix systems administrator for the project "was in Argentina and his co-worker was physically located in the [People's Republic of China]. Both had direct access to every row of data in every database: they were root"

The Democrat/Republican Uniparty US Government really knows what it is doing. And now the Uniparty want's to control your health care and your health records and in its latest grab for power over our lives, the US gov wants to determine what type of neighborhood you may live in. They're so smart you know --- they know what's best for everybody.

[Clintonfatigued]

The DOD has outsourced national security to a nation with atomic missiles pointed at us. Does that make any sense to anyone?

[tbw2]

The OPM Data Breach – What To Do Now and In the Future to Protect Ourselves

http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/The-OPM-Data-Breach-What-To-Do-Now-and-In-the-Future-to-Protect-Ourselves