<![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> What kind of idiot keeps sensitive data like that on a fucking FLASH drive??

bobblack555

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> @paulinsf: Nice.

ViperBorg

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> @mercnet: Well as much as Truecrypt is great for individuals, on a enterprise level it could become problematic.

There are plenty of enterprise products for this, and there is no excuse for not using it. If you're not going to be keeping your data in a secured facility, encrypt it. NIH is about to pay a whole lot of money for someone to come in and implement encryption after that laptop loss. Looks like this prison is in the same boat.

Veeber

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> This happened here in Nashville as well. Only this time, it was a laptop containing the names, addresses, social security numbers, and drivers license numbers of all the county's registered voters. Apparantly the laptop had post-its on it containing all the passwords needed to access the database.

Of course this happened a perfect three weeks after I had registered as a voter. Freaking awesome. If people are going to keep records like this, it needs to be on something / somewhere not easily lost or accessed. It's just plain irresponsible.

And to not even offer to pay for the added credit monitoring that is now going to be required, is as good as denying any wrong-doing or responsibility on their part.

rustyni

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> @A.W.E.S.O.M.-O: When I was in highschool, my homeroom teacher took my whole class to do a group tour of the county jail after some serious disciplinary issues.

It put the fear of G-d in most of us.

pinkpuppet

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> God is it that hard to run www.truecrypt.com ? I been using it since I was in high school.

mercnet

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> @kinamoto: Well, by "group tour" it sort of sounds non-professional, i.e., "On your left is our famous gas chamber!" I don't think you'd need to arrange a group tour for a journalist or police officer.

I guess if you were a parent looking to put the fear of god in your kid, a tour might work though.

A.W.E.S.O.M.-O

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> Time for a cavity search.

statnut

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> @A.W.E.S.O.M.-O: Students/teachers, journalists, other law enforcement employees?

kinamoto

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> Tours of prisons are more common than you think, particularly with law and criminal justice students and the like.

glater

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> "prison security". i love it.

oakie

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> That accompanying photo is hilarious.

MissTic

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> Why did the information need to be stored on any kind of portable medium?

Troy F.

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> "Who takes a tour of a prison?"

There's a list around somewhere.

paulinsf

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> Who takes a tour of a prison?

A.W.E.S.O.M.-O

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> They lost it on the 4th, and didn't notify the affected people until two weeks later? Helpful.

flidget

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> Well, hopefully they lost it in the prison, so it'll be easier to find.

Idiots.

marsneedsrabbits

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> A data shank.....I love it!

CaptZ

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> I wonder if Metallica's information is on there?

APFPilot

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> I wouldn't worry too much, it's probably already been converted into a shank of some kind.

hi

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> The more and more this happens, the more I have an urge to burn my social security card, my birth certificate, the hospital I was born in, anyone who knows my name, and run screaming into the woods. I might just skip everything else and just run screaming into the woods, y'know, as a weekend thing. I call it "Vocal Camping"

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[Prison Officials Lose Flash Drive With Data On 3,500 Volunteers And Visitors]]> I am sure they are taking it seriously.

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