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2006-06-29 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve White 2006-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "They gave him express permission to take the information home. When it was stolen, he reported it right away."

no wun ever wantsta sleeng em dung up hill, but ima theenkerin moren this guyz to be blaymed.

Posted by muck4doo 2006-06-29 04:14|| http://evolvedamnyou.blogspot.com/]">[http://evolvedamnyou.blogspot.com/] 2006-06-29 04:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The Veterans Affairs worker faulted for losing veterans' personal information had permission to access millions of Social Security numbers on a laptop from home, agency documents obtained by The Associated Press show.

It's from the AP, so give this a bit of salt before the retraction/correction. It's their style.

However, knowing the stupidity of 'suprevisors and managers' when it comes to practicing safe security, and the laziness with which they deal with this type of stuff until someone is made an example of, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out true.

Posted by Sniper Chease8428 2006-06-29 09:23|| 2006-06-29 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 The question is whether he was given permission to access the data on VA computers via a virtual private network connection (secure) or whether he was given permission to KEEP the info on his own laptop.

The first is perfectly safe. The latter is a serious violation.

Posted by lotp 2006-06-29 09:32|| 2006-06-29 09:32|| Front Page Top

#4 A gummit worker working from home.... something sounds fishy.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-29 09:34|| 2006-06-29 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 my thought too, Beoseker. This whole thing is kinda wierd. Espionage?

Posted by 2b 2006-06-29 09:54|| 2006-06-29 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Foxalert - Pentagon has retrieved the stolen laptop

no answers whether the data was copied, though..

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-29 10:58|| 2006-06-29 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Who has been fired? These incompetent and extremely stupid bastards just carry on. There are and will be no penalties. Just more bags of hot air. There is not one department of the government that is competent. Ahhh, maybe Defense is still functional, but some of their calls bring them into question.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-06-29 11:21|| 2006-06-29 11:21|| Front Page Top

#8 A gummit worker working from home.... something sounds fishy.

VPN is available to the white collar professionals in my federal organization. Quite common, actually.

Posted by "govt worker" 2006-06-29 11:23|| 2006-06-29 11:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes, telecommuting is the wave of the future. :/

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-06-29 11:35|| 2006-06-29 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 What a bunch of idiots...

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-06-29 18:23|| 2006-06-29 18:23|| Front Page Top

#11 If the computer security is correctly set up, it works great. The knee-jerk would disappear if you tried it in a place with high-caliber SysAdmin staff - trust me.

At the last company I worked for, about 50% of its employees were telecommuters. The required floorspace, desks and such was reduced by about 35% - they created the remaining 15% which were set up as "hot seats", i.e. no permanent occupant - available for when you needed to physically be in the office. There were lots of smallish conference rooms - all walls were the dry-marker boards - and special team meetings were the normal reason for most of us to ever go in. The rest of the time, it was teleconferenced with video / audio. We even had our own company "television channel" (TVIP) on our network.

Posted by Crolump Glereper5426 2006-06-29 18:38|| 2006-06-29 18:38|| Front Page Top

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