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Comments on: Once Again They’ve Had A Breach https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/08/07/once-again-theyve-had-a-breach/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 08 Aug 2006 03:25:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/08/07/once-again-theyve-had-a-breach/comment-page-1/#comment-17107 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 03:25:39 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/08/07/once-again-theyve-had-a-breach/#comment-17107 I have a client for which I’ve done three projects over the years. Their work sits on a separate physical bootable hard disk that I have to install in a machine when I do work for them. The entire disk is encrypted beyond the basic operating system and it has never been near the Internet.

All correspondence is encrypted.

Their basic service is a specialized training course, but they don’t want anyone to discover their pricing or client list.

If a training company can be that security conscious [and no, they are not in a particularly secretive market, they are actually very mundane] why can’t the bloody government?

These guys are protecting trade secrets and their business model. You would think government personnel records would rate a bit higher, especially after the last loss.

[You probably heard that Furby was banned from NSA sites because of its recording capability.]

]]> By: phinky https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/08/07/once-again-theyve-had-a-breach/comment-page-1/#comment-17105 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:59:20 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/08/07/once-again-theyve-had-a-breach/#comment-17105 I’m not allowed to bring in or take out from my worksite the following: mp3 players, thumbdrives, cd’s, floppy disks, cell phones, PDAs, laptops and any type of recordable media. But then, I work at a DoD facility and Def is way more security conscious than even the FBI(!). If only the VA was as vigilant about security as the Department of Defense.

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