Re: Choicepoint [was: Re: Break-In At SAIC Risks ID Theft]
Yes, this _is_ much worse. :-/ Thinking out loud here, but one's imagination runs wild at the prospect of how much it will take before more credence is given to a serious top-to-bottom security infrastructure revamp. And holding these firms $responsible_ ... $.02, - ferg -- Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote: It gets worse: Database giant gives access to fake firms http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6969799/ ---Rsk -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: | | Yes, this _is_ much worse. :-/ | | Thinking out loud here, but one's imagination runs | wild at the prospect of how much it will take before | more credence is given to a serious top-to-bottom security | infrastructure revamp. | | And holding these firms $responsible_ ... Not likely. This is totally off-the-cuff noise, but I find it much more credible that there was no "criminal" break in at Choicepoint. This is Choicepoint pre-explaining how certain records got into "unauthorsied" hands. Choicepoint/Seisint is a pretty controversial outfit, and pretty much always has been. Just google for big-boss Hank Asher This whole outfit smells to high heaven. How this is germane to nanog, I'm not too sure. my .01 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEl8P0STXFHxUucwRAskiAJ913AgOuhCxojOJI8WeCCWfeGbF3ACeL6sU +r8xJ56qhmiamYUpcqXkkRs= =KCvy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Update: ChoicePoint's problem could affect up to 400,000 now. Identity Theft Bigger Than First Thought: http://www.wgst.com/cc-common/local_news_common.html? ID=20050217034315&feed=local -Jim P. On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 20:15 +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
Yes, this _is_ much worse. :-/
Thinking out loud here, but one's imagination runs wild at the prospect of how much it will take before more credence is given to a serious top-to-bottom security infrastructure revamp.
And holding these firms $responsible_ ...
$.02,
- ferg
-- Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
It gets worse:
Database giant gives access to fake firms http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6969799/
---Rsk
-- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
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