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Ohio Plans To Encrypt After Data Breach
Lucas123 writes "After a backup tape containing sensitive information on 130,000 Ohio residents, current and former employees, and businesses was stolen from the car of a government intern in June, the state government just announced it has purchased 60,000 licenses of encryption software — McAfee's SafeBoot — for state offices to use to protect data. It's estimated that the missing backup tape will cost Ohio $3 million. In September, the state docked a government official about a week of future vacation time for not ensuring that the data would be protected."
Help me close this barn door, would ya?
The state loses $3 million bucks, and the guy responsible gets the punishment of a whole week of lost vacation time? Wow....I want to find me a job where I can screw up so badly and get off so lightly. I mean....other than the Presidency.
"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." -- Eric Hoffer
...that the next time they get a backup tape stolen, it'll have a post-it note stuck to the tape with the password on it?
I absolutely know that I don't want to hear the story of how those four words got used in the same sentence until happy hour is nearly over.
Yeah? Well, I wouldn't mind. Not the sentence they added.
Perhaps this one:
"After I checked the backup tapes to ensure that 512-bit AES encryption was working, and that the tapes were still readable, I closed and deadbolted the tape room, and then went out to my car to go to lunch with the new (darn good looking) intern from the art department."
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!