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Re: RD on USG laptop insecurity
From: macwheel99 () wowway com
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:32:45 -0500
I have read the article ... it is a digest of what we all should know. With relevance to another thread on the notion that elected officials need to be informed on this (they already know all about it, but sometimes pretend to be surprised, because of the need to get re-elected).
From the article:
[..] But the computer lost in Alabama wasn't encrypted. Neither was a laptop stolen from the car trunk of a researcher at the National Institutes of Health in February. That laptop had detailed information -- names, birth dates, medical histories -- on 2,500 patients enrolled in a federal medical study. (In a twist you couldn't make up, one of them was Texas Congressman Joe Barton, who also happens to be the founder of the Congressional Privacy Caucus. "I was stunned," Barton said.) [..] Despite growing awareness of the problem, real safeguards are not in place. A February report by the Government Accountability Office found that only two of 24 agencies the GAO reviewed had implemented all the security measures recommended by the government. So it shouldn't be a surprise that the GAO also found that at least 19 of 24 agencies had experienced one or more breaches that could expose people's personal information to identity theft [..]
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