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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:24:29 GMT 'Unruh'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:
>hummingbird <hummingbird@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:48:18 +0100 'Kartnin'
>>wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:
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>>>"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
>>>news:GdKdncRLgqPlASzVnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> From: "Ari" <DROPTheJooseIsLoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>>> | On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:38:44 +0200, Anonymous Remailer wrote:
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>>>>>> Sunday Herald uncovers theft of data from every guest in 1300 Best
>>>>>> Western Hotels in past 12 months.
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>>>>>> http://sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2432225.0.0.php
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>>>> It isn't the biggest.
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>>>> www.theinternetpatrol.com/40-million-us-credit-card-and-debit-card-numbers-stolen-by-war-driving-identity-theft-ring">http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/40-million-us-credit-card-and-debit-card-numbers-stolen-by-war-driving-identity-theft-ring
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>>>Less data lost but bigger percent of population!.
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>>>Nov 2007: U.K. In Uproar Over Massive Data Loss
>>> www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/21/tech/main3529481.shtml">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/21/tech/main3529481.shtml
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>>Yep, that was the biggest known data loss by the state in the UK.
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>>But it's just the tip of the iceberg...only two days ago a USB
>>stick containing full names of every prisoner including expected
>>release dates, was lost; about 125,000 pieces of personal data.
>>Laptops and Top Secret papers are routinely left on trains or
>>stolen from cars etc. Govt security is like a sieve. Welcome
>>to socialism.
>Best Western is a private company.
Yeahbut, the URL Kartnin provided was about UK State loss of
personal data, and it was that which I commented on. But it's
true to say that data security is poor in both state and private
organisations. In the UK, the State likes to demand and hold far
more data than most private orgs and the risks are very high, not
least because the socialist govt don't care/don't have a clue
about the subject. They're driven by police-state control-freakery
--
"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed,
and third, it is accepted as self-evident"
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
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