Census Bureau loses hundreds of laptops

**Blodrast** · 09-22-2006, 22:59

The full story is here.

All your information is safe, of course.

I mean, who ever heard of "weak" passwords, or breaking encryption (or bypassing it) ?
Anybody wanna bet $5 that whenever any of these are recovered, the "experts" will claim with utter certainty that sensitive data wasn't accessed ?
meh...

Privacy is a thing of the distant past.

**mercian billman** · 09-23-2006, 04:39

With all the information security and all the paronoia concerning privacy, it's simply amazing that people don't take proper measures to assure accountability.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 09-23-2006, 05:29

A good reason not to fill out the 'long form'. Or even most of the short form, I'd guess.

Crazed Rabbit

**Xiahou** · 09-23-2006, 08:17

Originally Posted by Blodrast

The full story is here.

All your information is safe, of course.

I mean, who ever heard of "weak" passwords, or breaking encryption (or bypassing it) ?
Anybody wanna bet $5 that whenever any of these are recovered, the "experts" will claim with utter certainty that sensitive data wasn't accessed ?
meh...

Privacy is a thing of the distant past.

Meh, what could the census bureau know that the credit agencies already dont know and share with anyone who asks?

**Blodrast** · 09-23-2006, 09:04

Originally Posted by Xiahou

Meh, what could the census bureau know that the credit agencies already dont know and share with anyone who asks?

lol, sadly, you do have a point.
It is however a bit annoying that these things seem to happen more often than I'd personally feel comfortable with.
Not much to comment on this, anyway. I just posted it because I thought it would be an interesting bit of information. And yeah, Crazed Rabbit, I agree - fill as little of them forms as possible, when you can...