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?"

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the administration is a bigger threat than osama

[swschrad]

and they can't deny it. they do everything they can to try and focus attention away from their utter and total failure in every possible direction, every possible measurement. and. it. isn't. working.

What exactly was your first clue?

[Keyslapper]

After this, how could one have faith enough to serve an inept institution?

So, surely you've seen some of the great moments of the Commander in Chief that currently runs policy for the US military?

And this was the first clue in 6 years that it was an inept institution?

Oh, I get it now. Welcome back. How was Mars?

While you were away, Earth has been on the verge of total chaos in the absence of any remotely intelligent leadership, mostly thanks to the fundamentalist sheep that seem to make up the highly vocal minority of the human population.

Just to bring you up to speed, the most powerful man in the world has trouble stringing two coherent sentences together when a camera is pointed at him (which is almost constantly, unfortunately), and the runner up is widely regarded as being his poodle. This pretty much implies that the two most powerful military forces on the planet are pretty much running on empty in the IQ dept. As you will have guessed, this means nobody on the front lines is safe from any angle. Many of those on the "Home Front" are pretty much in the same boat.

So, while these idealistic, brave young men and women are trying to protect us in the "free" world, we're all losing the freedom they're dying to protect. You ever hear any of the stories where someone sets of a major alarm at one end of the city, then robs a gold repository at the other end when all the cops are away? That's what's happening here, only the gold being carted off is our freedom and privacy, and the soldiers are off dying in the wrong place for the wrong reason. Given the apparent incompetence of the world leadership, it's more likely being misplaced than stolen.