Re: Clinton's Office Says Her Passport Files Also Breached

["Dennis Henderson" <hendomatic () gmail com>]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:05 PM, John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP <
bambenek.infosec () gmail com> wrote:

> "haven't even bothered to notice your name", or what I've been saying
> either, wherein lies the entire absurdity of this thread.
>
> My post meant to convey two things and two things alone:
>
> One, the absurdity of political candidates falling all over themselves
> trying to get to a microphone to get on TV.
> Two, that this is not a *newsworthy* story.
>
> In the time it took you to type this, dozens more have probably died in
> Tibet, dozens have died in Kenya, three militaries are sabre-waving at their
> respective borders in South America, no one knows when the Serbia-Kosovo
> thing will go south, more unborn children have been butchered for the sake
> of convenience, and so forth.  The information in a passport file is really
> low on the list of systems that need to be hardened inside the federal
> government.  And that doesn't even count how many more significant
> intrusions have taken place.
>
> In fact, I'm sure thousands more National ID numbers (or SSNs if you
> prefer the euphemism), CC numbers and so on have been stolen of every day
> people who don't have nearly the resources to track down and protect
> themselves from the fraud they're likely to see soon enough.
>
> Even a step further, this shit has taken place in every political campaign
> for high office since the dawn of elections... why are we getting bent out
> of shape now?  Is it because we're disciples of the Church of Obama?  Where
> you bent out of shape like this when Michael Steele's credit reports were
> stolen because I would think a credit report is far more consequential than
> what countries you visited?
>
> The point is, I didn't give a technical response to it, mostly because the
> only data we have are token statements from State and press releases from
> political campaigns in a hotly contested primary.  And even then, those have
> been whitewashed through the press.  We don't know what the hell happened
> yet, but what we do know is that the people involved got fired, and even if
> they don't get prosecuted, they're careers are over.  In the grand scheme of
> life, this is not news.
>
> So you misattributed my original post to something I did not intend, made
> one character attack about my professionalism and then continue it here but
> can't even be honest with yourself by putting in disclaimers like "no
> offense", but then make ad hominems anyway.  I'd just rather you left my
> flippant remark about **politics** lie.  If you want a technical analysis,
> well, I'd like some data first... and money.
>
> So unless you somehow think my GCIH and CISSP certifications require me to
> support Barack "Empty Suit" Obama, I'm not sure what's left to discuss here.
>
> It was a comment about politics and the media, nothing more.
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