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They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure
From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:03:47 -0500
They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure January 9th, 2007 by Dan Gillmor (I originally wrote this for PR Week magazine.) Several weeks ago, UCLA acknowledged that some of its computers had been hacked. Obeying a state law, it notified more than 800,000 people that their personal data, including Social Security numbers, might have ended up in the wrong hands. The fact that the data got loose wasn¹t all that striking. Unfortunately, that¹s all too common. What struck me was this statement from a hapless UCLA honcho: ³We have a responsibility to safeguard personal information, an obligation that we take very seriously.² When and where have I heard that before? All kinds of times and places, actually. It¹s becoming a mantra that means almost nothing. Try this: Plug ³we take² and ³very seriously² into a Google News or Yahoo News search. You¹ll get hundreds of hits, albeit some repeats, where some big institution - corporate, educational, government, whatever - makes a giant blunder and then issues a ³we take (insert the violated policy) very seriously² statement. < - > http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/01/09/they-take-it-seriously-oh-sure/ _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 143 million compromised records in 529 incidents over 6 years.
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- They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure Richard Forno (Jan 10)
- Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure B.K. DeLong (Jan 10)
- Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure George Toft (Jan 11)
- Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure Adrian Sanabria (Jan 20)
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- Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure Sean Steele (Jan 10)
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