Thread: Highly Confused....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060618/...data_theft_d_c

Didn't this happen over 2 weeks or so ago??? I remember reading about this here back then! Did this happen again or is this a huge coverup that got leaked and the government had to make up something???

Oh wait... in re-reading this is a DIFFERENT incident... the first one was vets and now it's DC workers.

Too much coincidence for my line of thinking.

Originally Posted by Reesa

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060618/...data_theft_d_c

Didn't this happen over 2 weeks or so ago??? I remember reading about this here back then! Did this happen again or is this a huge coverup that got leaked and the government had to make up something???

That was a VA laptop.

http://www.nbc4.com/news/9377752/detail.html

This is completely different.

Here's yet another:

Missing voter data may spur overhaul
After 150,000 records vanish, a councilwoman weighs a push to replace the three-member Denver Election Commission.
By Christopher N. Osher and Mike McPhee
Denver Post Staff Writers


Hatsue and Jimmy Mikunifill out their voter cards with the help of election official Ida Cole, at Fire Station #4 in Denver on Nov. 1, 2005. (Post / Kathryn Scott Osler)

Following the disclosure that the Denver Election Commission had lost personal data on more than 150,000 voters, a Denver councilwoman Saturday said the agency may need to be overhauled.

Councilwoman Carol Boigon said she wanted to revisit an earlier proposal from Council President Rosemary Rodriguez that stalled last year.

Rodriguez had proposed eliminating the three-member commission and replacing it with one elected official who would oversee the agency.

"I'm wondering if we have the proper structure for election services," Boigon said, casting doubt on the way the current three-member commission operates.

Other City Council members were taking a wait-and-see approach after learning that a file cabinet containing microfilm with voter registrations from 1989 to 1998 had disappeared.

The missing records contained voters' names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, signatures and addresses, according to a Friday statement from the commission website.

The cabinet has been missing since the commission moved to its new offices at 303 W. Colfax Ave. in February.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3923323

The only coincidence is that the people who run corporations are just as incomprehensibly stupid-and careless-as the ones who run the federal government.

If you don't believe me, then just read this book and you'll be convinced:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047178 ... oding=UTF8

From Publishers Weekly

It would be difficult to find an author with more credibility than Mitnick to write about the art of hacking. In 1995, he was arrested for illegal computer snooping, convicted and held without bail for two years before being released in 2002. He clearly inspires unusual fear in the authorities and unusual dedication in the legions of computer security dabblers, legal and otherwise. Renowned for his use of "social engineering," the art of tricking people into revealing secure information such as passwords, Mitnick (The Art of Deception) introduces readers to a fascinating array of pseudonymous hackers.

One group of friends bilks Las Vegas casinos out of more than a million dollars by mastering the patterns inherent in slot machines; another fellow, less fortunate, gets mixed up with a presumed al-Qaeda–style terrorist; and a prison convict leverages his computer skills to communicate with the outside world, unbeknownst to his keepers. Mitnick's handling of these engrossing tales is exemplary, for which credit presumably goes to his coauthor, writing pro Simon.

Given the complexity (some would say obscurity) of the material, the authors avoid the pitfall of drowning readers in minutiae. Uniformly readable, the stories—some are quite exciting—will impart familiar lessons to security pros while introducing lay readers to an enthralling field of inquiry.

These people are hell bent on stealing our lives, and our government are helping them!

And you thought The Matrix was fiction?

Pfft.

Someone stole over 15,000 college student records since the VA theift as well. They are having a hayday on this. And the timing indicates to me that it is a well thought out plan. Some may be independant of one another, but i believe more than not that as easy as this has been to pull off, and and many incidents that are happening, the pro side plans on staying threw hook or crook.

Everyone is aware that our government is so broken in ALL areas and they will delay fixing anything. This will take years to implement the ID thing or anything else they claim to be doing to fix it. That included tracking stolen SS# etc.

I have to say beside the blatent betrayal of Americans over the Mexican invation, not much esle has shocked me until I see people coming forward with their SS# stolen and that absolutly nothing is being done to those they find using it. I do not feel safe or protected at ANY level anymore in this country. NONE!

And these are the same craven, despicable cowards that want to institute a "national identification system," all the while granting illegal invaders the right to steal our SS #s.