I’ve complained before that companies are rarely, if ever, penalised for loosing personal information of their clients. But here we have a recent case where some punishing is going to be done. Only, to the wrong people.

Any establishment that deals with such information should - and usually does - have a security officer that puts in place certain requirements and procedures for dealing with said information. No visitors, no access to people that don’t need the access etc.  So when the CSO puts in place such a retarded policy and keeps it in effect for 5 years, 2 of which he or she uses interns [which do not generally undergo any heavy security clearance assessment] for that, those tapes might have been just as well mailed back to the office everyday [so that the post office can do the off-site storage.]

Most people seem unaware of just how much money can be made with such a batch of personal records. I can see countless cons and scenarios whereby a student would go into a college - where the application process is not as stringent as  for University - and try to get an internship, all while using a fake name and aiming to hijack exactly something like that.

Come to think of it, anybody in Ohio that wants to teach the Gov’t a lesson, here’s a summer project for you.