GoDaddy's support page still says that they are still having technical difficulties but my hosted site and E-Mail to all domains seems to be back up. Looks like they're trying to complete with Jet Blue for hamhandedness superiority. Now I'm awaiting my letter of apology from Bob...
Yes but with a major corporation you can refuse to get their card. As a DoD member you can't, or they'll refuse to reimburse you for your gov't travel.
Actually the thing to do is to lobby for going back to the cash advance system for travel pay. This program of forcing people to sign up for credit cards that they don't want and risking their own credit rating for it when the government doesn't come through in time with reimbursement has been a loser from day one.
Why not consider the possibility of an inside job? Considering that fact that only some tapes were missing from the shipment, and that they seem to have selectively targeted at DoD members, why not consider the possibility of some good old fashioned espionage by paying someone inside the company to snitch them? Everyone is thinking about identify theft, but what about being able to track the movement of 900,000 members of the DoD? Knowing where they were, when they were there, the places they stayed, etc. could have great value for the right group(s). In any case it is likely that encryption would not be enough to stop an organization that was thinking of using the data in this manner.
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Thanks for the posting. Where did it come from? I've been checking their website for something like this but haven't seen anything.
GoDaddy's support page still says that they are still having technical difficulties but my hosted site and E-Mail to all domains seems to be back up. Looks like they're trying to complete with Jet Blue for hamhandedness superiority. Now I'm awaiting my letter of apology from Bob...
The details are dribbling out. The Boston Globe is reporting that five tapes were lost, two which have government employee data. So what was on the other three? http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/02 /27/bank_data_loss_may_affect_60_officials/
Things have changed since the 80s. Carts are about 4 1/2 inches square and with compression can hold up to 180GB on 384 tracks. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/TSD 00259USEN/TSD00259USEN.PDF/
Yes but with a major corporation you can refuse to get their card. As a DoD member you can't, or they'll refuse to reimburse you for your gov't travel.
Actually the thing to do is to lobby for going back to the cash advance system for travel pay. This program of forcing people to sign up for credit cards that they don't want and risking their own credit rating for it when the government doesn't come through in time with reimbursement has been a loser from day one.
Previous card programs were run by American Express and before them Diners Club, if that gives you a clue.
Why not consider the possibility of an inside job? Considering that fact that only some tapes were missing from the shipment, and that they seem to have selectively targeted at DoD members, why not consider the possibility of some good old fashioned espionage by paying someone inside the company to snitch them? Everyone is thinking about identify theft, but what about being able to track the movement of 900,000 members of the DoD? Knowing where they were, when they were there, the places they stayed, etc. could have great value for the right group(s). In any case it is likely that encryption would not be enough to stop an organization that was thinking of using the data in this manner.