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Re: [privacy] 93,754,333 Examples of Data Nonchalance
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:16:44 -0400 (EDT)
: > > vulnerability of personal data, companies and institutions of every : > > shape and size - like the data broker ChoicePoint, the credit card : > > processor CardSystems Solutions, media companies like Time Warner and : > > dozens of colleges and universities across the land - have collectively : > > fumbled 93,754,333 private records. : > : > And given that most of the breaches have been in the US, it's safe to guess : > that most of the 93M have been US resident's records. With the population : > sitting at just under 300M, that means a 1 in 3 chance your stuff has : > been swiped. : : err not really. Their math is FUD tainted. You have to at least subtract : the 26 million they included with the VA laptop that was recovered. So because the data was out of their control for over a month, but they happened to get the laptop back.. the data is just magically 'safe' and wasn't compromised? How do they know? : I am not saying that people dont mishandle data, or that the entire : system isnt flawed to begin with (I doubt very much that FDR was : concerned about Information Security), just that they drummed up the : numbers a little. Also remember that PRC does not track non US dataloss incidents. _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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