This is insane. Cant there be someone who is careful. The Border security info can be used against them to leave in immigrants who are not supposed to enter this. Privacy usually ensures that the peoples identity are covered so that their personal family and other life is not known to people who are not allowed to take advantage of it.
<br><br>At this rate, entire critical infrastructure information is going to be lost despite providing security<br><br><br>Shyaam<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fergie</b> <
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<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Via The Tuscaloosa News (props, <a href="http://attrition.org">attrition.org</a>).<br><br>[snip]<br><br>A computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers and other personal<br>information on nearly 1,300 California National Guard troops deployed to
<br>the U.S.-Mexico border has apparently been stolen.<br><br>The hard drive was reported missing Feb. 23 from the Guard's border mission<br>headquarters inside San Diego Naval Base, said California National Guard<br>
spokesman Lt. Col. Jon Siepmann. It contains home addresses, birth dates<br>and other identifying information for all soldiers serving long-term<br>assignments on the border.<br><br>The Guard notified the soldiers Feb. 28 that their information had been
<br>compromised. It advised them to begin checking credit statements and take<br>other protective measures.<br><br>The Guard has turned the investigation over to the Navy's Criminal<br>Investigative Division, Siepmann said.
<br><br>[snip]<br><br>More:<br><a href="http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070309/APA/703092833">http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070309/APA/703092833</a><br><br>- - ferg<br><br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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. Paul Ferguson<br> Engineering Architecture for the Internet<br> fergdawg(at)netzero.net<br> ferg's tech blog: <a href="http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/">http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>_______________________________________________
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