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California Hax0red

Posted by michael on from the san-andreas-fault dept.

rochlin writes "200,000 California state workers burned! According to the Sacramento Bee, personal and financial info for 200,000 workers was accessed by a team of hackers "working secretly over the past several months." Stolen info included "the perfect mix of information to allow identity theft" according to the Sacramento Valley Hi Tech Task Force."

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  1. Re:Well done... by ArsonSmith · · Score: 0, Troll

    * If said crackers mess up the lives of a bunch of CA politicians, will we get better laws, or worse?

    I am apposed to your automaticly thinking that these hackers are white. They could be black people or hispanic as well. Right off you go out and call them all crackers.

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    Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
  2. Re:Security is impossible by Groucho · · Score: 0, Troll

    LOL Yeah I'm still lobbying for a marble desk.

    But an admin should have access to EVERYTHING without having to hack into it.

    User stupidity is a prime example. If you want to instill security into a user base, you should be able to enforce password rules and expiration dates. You should be able to change password God123 to Gh0D3s1 at your whim and force the user to memorize the goddamned thing, and tear any post-it notes off the user's monitor bezel as it suits you. But that's just my POV, I could be wrong.

    And if your (l)users are using Hotmail for mission critical data, you should be allowed to stick white hot donkey rods of PURE HATRED up their quivering clueless assholes.

    And again, that is just my personal opinion; I could be wrong.

    G