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Government-Aided Phishing
Anonymous writes "A Florida county is posting the Social Security numbers, bank account info and other sensitive data of hundreds of thousands of current and former residents on its public Web site, Computerworld is reporting. A county official says there's no problem, since the postings are in compliance with state law requiring public availability of records." From the article: "The breach stems from the county's failure to redact or remove sensitive data from images of public documents such as property records and family court documents, Hogman said. Included in the documents that are publicly available are dates of birth and Social Security numbers of minors, images of signatures. passport numbers, green card details and bank account information."
I think you answered your own question.
From the same people who brought you Indecision 2000... here comes Identity Theft-O-Rama. 3 days in the future: 10:00 News: "For what seems to be no reason, thousands of individuals in Florida seem to be buying things online in mass. Oddly enough, none of the orders are being delivered to Florida. We'll have a video for you after the break. Over to you, Bob."
Silence is golden... and duct tape is silver.
...is post a link to the information! How else are we to know if the data is genuine?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Yeah, hello, Spain? You can have it back now.
The problem with your idea is that it makes sense.
I don't know if this could be considered "phishing" in the sense that I'm trying to lure people into giving me their information. It's right out there for all to see without going through all the bothersome effort of setting up a fake website and sending out the e-mails! Just some browsing, and then setting up the bank transfers and charging purchases!
And to think of all the effort that's being wasted on setting up phishing schemes, when Broward County will do all the work instead!
<Homer>Florida? But that's America's wang!</Homer>
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Well... It WAS working. Then i did a search for 'Johnson' and now the webserver seems to be stuck in never-never land.
*sigh*
signatures are for fools with hands
You break it you buy it!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Something phishy's going on here.
*ducks*
I was looking at wanted posters, and each one had an SS number on it.
Yeah, but were you really tempted to steal the identity of someone the police were looking for?
Speaking of attracting undesireables, I appear to have picked up a stalker, nyahahah! Eh any ACs or GuloGulo (959533) that respond to this message, everyone remember the name, this one is truly half baked.
Hah! Stalkers? Gimme a break. Try carrying around my sig and see how many disgusting uncircumcised Europeans or "I was robbed at birth!" wackos hit me up.
I hope they all get phimosis. Savages.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
That's right Broward County, home of all those Republican officials... oh wait, what's that, the county is heavily Democrat without any elected Republican officials, as in all nine of the County Commissioners are Democrats? Well... must be Bush's fault somehow anyway!
/. story says something negative about politician's actions, but doesn't emphasize their party affiliation, there's an extremely high correlation that the politicians in question are Democrats. Hence, you wouldn't even have to RTFA, but just the summary, to figure out that the unnamed County and officials are Democrats.
See, when a
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.