Re: InfoSec's Waterloo and it's implications

[Vin McLellan <vin () theworld com>]

Congress offers competing ideas on fighting ID theft --
Proposals include licensing data brokers, notifying potential victims

ComputerWorld News Story by Grant Gross
JUNE 17, 2005 <HTTP://WWW.IDG.NET>(IDG News Service)
url: http://tinyurl.com/dsos7

<snip> <snip>

This is a decent overview of the Congressional mood as of 6/17 -- the day 
it was announced that financial information on some 40 million credit card 
holders <http://tinyurl.com/cmgzw> had been illicitly accessed in a 
sophisticated data theft using a targeted virus... and the day after the UK 
announced that the data files of various British government agencies and 
financial institutions had (also) been penetrated 
<http://tinyurl.com/74atz> by a targeted virus attack, to unknown ends.

Whatever comes next is bound to be noisy and authoritative.

_Vin



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