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U.S. Service Personnel Data Stolen
BStrunk writes "I was reading the news this morning on Reuters, when I stumbled across this article:
U.S. Service Personnel Personal Data Stolen
In the article, an official violated policy by taking the detailed personal information of thousands of active and reserve troops to his personal home, storing it on a personal computer, that was later stolen. In an age where domestic phone calls are monitored, a government employee was allowed to walk out of a government installation with the data on thousands of American citizens to store on an insecure personal computer? Doesn't that seem strange to you? This is a real failure, in my opinion, in government protection of its citizens. Layers of encryption and protected access was successfully bypassed to make the theft of this information as simple as stealing a home pc.
Now, not only do service personnel currently serving have to worry about IEDs and being fired upon, but they are now subject to possible identity theft. A real failure. After this, how could one have faith enough to serve an inept institution?"
What is an IED?
Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles.
How about: From the three-week-old-news department?
It should be easy enough to tell that this isn't a dupe. After all, it wasn't posted by Zonk.
Similar to the upcoming US election results
Who cares about some 'identity theft'? Wouldn't that just be what you'd need, assuming that the soul-selling contract is with an individual. Identity theft => no identity => no obligation to hand in your soul.
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
And as has been stated elsewhere here, it's completely unnecessary, yet common on slashdot.