Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers

destinyland writes "A 22-year-old intern said today he's the 'scapegoat' for the loss of over 800,000 social security numbers - or roughly 7.3% of the people in the entire state of Ohio. From the article: 'The extent of my instructions on what to do after I removed the tapes from the tape drive and took the tapes out of the building was, bring these back tomorrow.' Three months into his $10.50-an-hour internship, he left the tapes in his car overnight — unencrypted — and they were stolen. Interestingly, the intern reports to a $125-an-hour consultant — and was advised not to tell the police that sensitive information had been stolen, which initially resulted in his becoming the prime suspect for the theft. Ohio's Inspector General faults the lack of data encryption — and too many layers of consultants. But their investigation (pdf) revealed that Ohio's Office of Management and Budget had been using the exact same procedure for over eight years."

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Re:Dear Diane Feinstein

[HomelessInLaJolla]

The problem with you not having a job is yours. If I were a hiring manager, and an employee came in with a couple of retards who followed him everywhere shouting "conspiracy theorist", "you don't know anything", and "it's all your own fault", then I don't care if he were the perfect person for the position and already had an H1-B. I wouldn't hire him until he got rid of the stalkers.

_YOU_ are the problem.

Dear Pr. Bush

[HomelessInLaJolla]

You ARE a conspiracy theorist. Dear President Bush,

I have reached a revelation today. Due to the overwhelming ridicule of Anonymous Cowards to each and every legitimate question that I've asked over the last eight months I have decided that it is in my best interests to agree with your line of thinking.

I believe the conspiracy theory.

I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black banks" who manage to exchange currency, grant loans, and fund corporations on the international market without ever revealing their location, their executives, or their source of resources.

I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black corporations" who manage to do business on the international scale, to ship and receive merchandise, to make investments in the global stock markets, to employ thousands of workers in fields ranging from janitorial and food services up to nuclear scientists, all without revealing their locations, the banks who process their funds, investments, and payroll checks, their executives, or their major business partners.

I believe that there is a conspiracy of men, clad in robes, who live in the deserts and mountains yet have the experience and materials necessary to assemble nuclear devices, to buy and sell all manner of weapons ranging from hand pistols to mortar tubes to grenade launchers to ICBMs, who live completely off the land and under the radar, who can communicate on a worldwide network, and who do business with the aforementioned "black banks" and "black corporations" without ever revealing their names, locations, or any other identifying information.

I believe that there is a conspiracy of "black executives" who run the aforementioned "black banks" and "black corporations", whose homes and offices are decorated with artwork and artisanship which is paid for in untraceable funds, who travel on cruise liners and jets which cannot be tracked in international airspace, and who play golf, cribbage, bridge, and whose children attend school right next to the other monied wealthy elite of the world without anyone ever knowing anything about it.

I believe that there is a worldwide conspiracy of "black nuclear contractors" who manage to evade the oversight of the UN, who procure nuclear material from the mining companies which fall under the umbrella of "black corporations", who pay for their employee payroll and their physical buildings with funds from the "black banks", who ship and receive their products using completely unknown "black airlines", whose overland transportation is handled entirely by "black trucking companies", and who buy "black toilet paper" so that they are completely untraceable to the other nuclear interests of the world.

Specifically, Mr. Bush, I believe in your conspiracy of "black everything" which threatens to attack the US, using "black missles", "black passports", "black computer chips", "black IP addresses", "black bank account numbers", "black airplanes", "black semi-trailers", "black forklifts", "black dockworkers", and have their own infrastructure of "black investigators" who sign off on all the paperwork which is required to move so much as a breath mint across international borders.

So, Mr. Bush, could you please stop sending the Anonymous Cowards around? I believe in your conspiracy and, just for the sake of arbitrary creativity, I'm going to continue to assume that none of it is possible, and I'm going to continue to ask the obvious questions of,"If these people are powerful enough to move billions of dollars at a time, how the _HELL_ are they doing it behind everyone's back?"

Don't thank me for my time, Mr. Bush. It is my duty and honor to point out the obvious to the nation.

Sincerely,

Steven B.

The only consistent feature in all of your failures is you Your baseless attempt to demoralize is unsuccessful.

Re:Dear Pr. Bush

[HomelessInLaJolla]

you're not special enough to warrant a conspiracy Other than repeating "it's all your own fault", would you care to share any details you think you know about the workplace situations which resulted in my homelessness?

Oh? What's that? You don't have any details and all you do is post the same old variants of "it's all your own fault!", screaming in frothing rage, because, in real life, you are one of the asshats who targets people and wears on them until they finally snap, just so you can go running to HR saying,"See! See! They got angry and I wasn't doing _nothing_!"