====================================================== -----Original Message----- From: "Timothy Sipples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 7/25/2006 6:44 AM To: "IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU" <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Subject: Associated Press: 540,000 New Yorkers at Risk of Identity Theft
The IT staff at CS Stars, a Chicago-based independent insurance brokerage, and at the State of New York, decided it was a smart idea to use a personal computer to shuttle data between the State's system and the brokerage's. Then the personal computer, housed in "a secured facility" (hah), went "missing." AP has the story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14015598/ This incident has absolutely nothing to do with mainframes. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples ====================================================== I am reminded of an old saying (paraphrased), "The level of intellectual capacity that got us into this mess is inadequate to get us out of this mess." Translation: The morons that made stupid decisions that caused the problem should not be allowed to make the decisions to solve the problem. Jeffrey D. Smith Farsight Systems Corporation 24 BURLINGTON DR LONGMONT, CO 80501 303-774-9381 direct 303-709-8153 cell 303-484-6170 fax ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
