Military lags in safeguarding officers' identities

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org>
> Date: November 1, 2009 6:51:49 PM EST
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Military lags in safeguarding officers' identities

> Hi Dave -
>
> For IP if you wish.
>
> Carl
>
> Military lags in safeguarding officers’ identities
> By Charlie Reed, Stars and Stripes
> Mideast edition, Monday, November 2, 2009
> YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan - The military is playing catch-up on a year- 
> old complaint that hundreds of thousands of officers’ Social Securit 
> y numbers have been floating around on the Internet.
>
> In an October 2008 letter to the Defense Department and the Federal  
> Trade Commission, Public.Resource.org detailed its discovery of  
> roughly 232,000 military officers’ Social Security numbers in govern 
> ment and commercial databases, available to anyone with an Internet  
> connection.
>
> http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65799
>
> ===========================
>
> The original FTC complaint and their response are here:
>
> http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/foia/gov.ftc_20081117_from.pdf
>
> http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/foia/gov.ftc_20081005_to.pdf



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