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Look at what showed up in the mail today
- Thread starter jmcquate
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Identity theft protection for 18 months?
LOL. I didn't know this was perishable information. Was I supposed to be renewing my SSN every 18 months?
Looks like they care as much about preventing identity theft now that the info is in the wild as they did about protecting the info in the first place.
Hilarious.
If you like your PII you can keep your PII.
LOL. I didn't know this was perishable information. Was I supposed to be renewing my SSN every 18 months?
Looks like they care as much about preventing identity theft now that the info is in the wild as they did about protecting the info in the first place.
Hilarious.
If you like your PII you can keep your PII.
So who would you recommend be fired? It isn't like some idiot left the files at the food court or sold them on Craig's List. Someone went looking for this info.
That asshole that keeps stealing my Blackberry phone in the Pentagon food court every year. Someday I'll catch him, but then I wouldn't get a gold coin/point/whatever.
Chase him. Fuck the 100 points.
I see some similarities here with the ISIS "hit list" and DoD's role there. The overwhelming majority of info and photos used by ISIS on their "hit list" were obtained through open source DoD press releases and social media. We, the rank and file, are told over and over to be careful with what we put online. We're told over and over to be careful about how we protect our personal information. In both cases, Big Gubbmint demonstrated that what's good for us, is not necessarily good for them.
I'm more than happy to follow good advice - I don't post selfies from yesterday's pre-flight walkaround. Why does C5F think it's ok to post the very same picture with my name, squadron, and hometown? I'm more than happy to follow any number of IA "best practices" - Why does USG/DOD think it's exempt?
The funniest/saddest part of the OP's letter is the part about being automatically enrolled in identity theft protection program. So let me get this right... You've demonstrated an inability to safegaurd my personal info (it wasn't even encrypted for F's sake), but now you're going to pass it off to a third, maybe even fourth, party for more "safe keeping". GFY.
It's going to get very interesting if this story gets much more traction in the mainstream media. Imagine your civilian best friend's reaction the next time you call him to see if you can list him on your SF-86...
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
Even worse...
Corrective action: All DoD servicemembers must now complete an additional NKO course on protecting PII. To appeal to millenials, this NKO will have a bloated GUI and cute games/points system to earn trophies at an expense of taking 5 minutes to load each section on an NMCI computer.
The shit was un-encrypted...........so ya, it was left on a table in a virtual food court. The scope of this is huge. I am no longer a Federal employee, but I've been vetted for clearances that have involved quite a bit more than filling out an SF-86 and some flunky in a cheap suit talking to my neighbors. I just hope that some of the 3 letters compartmentalized that stuff and didn't let the jackasses at Foggy Bottom oversee it.
I'm aware that this was a data breach. Just a reminder to those in public service that their privacy may not be what they think it is. As an aside (and the reason I know this) is that we had to provide certain clearance investigation details to the USAF to participate in one of their exercises. The only way to do this was to FOIA the investigations of the entire squadron, then submit that to the USAF. Talk about a backward way of doing business. On the plus side, I got to know what all my neighbors thought of me.
