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BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info

Posted by timothy on from the why-cry-over-spilt-milk-oil-and-data? dept.

Oxford_Comma_Lover writes "CNN Reports that BP lost a laptop with the name, address, DOB, and SSNs of everyone who filed claims related to the big oil spill last year. In other words, everyone asking for money from them based on the spill just got their private info misplaced. There has been no allegation of bad faith."

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  1. Bad Faith... by aralin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any sufficiently big level of stupidity is indistinguishable from malice :)

    Actually it is better for you to assume malice than stupidity, because if you go after a fool, he kinda sorta deserved it anyway, if you think a malicious enemy is stupid, you are gonna pay twice for being fool yourself. Game theory in action. :)

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