Re: [privacy] IRS Laptop Containing Employee Fingerprint Images Lost

["StyleWar" <stylewar () cox net>]

Ya ... we're safe.  We used like...a super double secret password.  And we
used it twice...which is nice.

-

StyleWar

"There are 3 kinds of people: Those who MAKE things
happen, those who WATCH things happen, and those who
wonder 'WHAT HAPPENED?'" 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: D'Aloisio, Marc [mailto:Marc.DAloisio () ct gov] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:33 AM
> To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [privacy] IRS Laptop Containing Employee 
> Fingerprint Images Lost
>
> I particularly like the sentence:
>
> "Data on the laptop was not encrypted, Lemon said, but it was 
> "double password protected," meaning someone would have to 
> enter two different passwords to access the data. "
>
> He apparently forgot to add "unless you use FCCU, Knoppix, or 
> one of the many other linux bootable CDs"
>
>
>
> Marc D'Aloisio, CISSP
> Network Security Analyst; Security Incident Response 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net]
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 6:39 PM
> To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
> Subject: [privacy] IRS Laptop Containing Employee Fingerprint 
> Images Lost
>
>
> Yet another.
>
> Via MSNBC.
>
> [snip]
>
> A laptop computer containing fingerprints of Internal Revenue Service
> employees is missing, MSNBC.com has learned.
>
> The computer was lost during transit on an airline flight in 
> the western
> United States, IRS spokesman Terry Lemon said. No taxpayer information
> was on the lost laptop, Lemon said.
>
> In all, the IRS believes the computer contained information on 291
> employees and job applicants, including fingerprints, names, Social
> Security numbers, and dates of birth. The fingerprints had been
> collected as part of a normal background screening process. Some job
> applicants' information also was also on the computer.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13152636/
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
>
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