Good news for Vets today!

Sep 22, 2006 12 Replies

I'm sure most of you have received this too, but I just wanted to let anyone know that hadn't yet received their letter...



I got a letter from the Dept. of Veteran Affairs today. They recovered that laptop that was stolen, and the FBI forensic team has reported they do not feel the sensitive data (all our names, soc #s, etc.) was accessed.



That should make a lot of people feel better. I know it's a load off of my mind. :-)



I do hope they are better at safeguarding my data in the future.


You expect something like THAT from the government? Does government ever do anything correctly LOL

mike hunt

Stuart,

I don't remember you ever telling us you were in the service before. What branch did you serve in and where were your duty stations?

I got that as well, and this was thoroughly debunked by the folks over at Slashdot.

Nevermind how one could do it under Linux; what's to stop me from removing the drive, adding the appropriate adapter, plugging it into a spare system, booting Ghost from floppy and backing up the data to a second drive?

I'd like to know just how they determined the information "was not accessed".

RA at Ft. Bliss. I can say I was involved with ADA and that's about it.

My wife and I each got ours a couple of weeks ago. You just got yours?

Regular Army and Air Defense Artillery.

Yes.

I guess it took longer to arrive since I live out in the boonies near Cleveland, OH. (Or BFE as some locals call it.)

Once again, our govmint, hard at work to protect our taxpayers. (or is that hardly at work?)

On a related matter, I see that the number of suicides off the Golden Gate bridge has some pols worried, so they've commissioned a $2 million study to find the best course to take to prevent these suicides...and it'll take two years to complete. That's just for the STUDY. For a dollar, I could tell them "so build a fence already!!!"

Ascii and ye shall receivii:

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...and what if the host OS isn't running?

You have *GOT* to be kidding me. I'll concede that you're more familiar with IT security than I, but I don't believe the FBI for a nanosecond. I know next to nothing about IT security, and I'd wager I stand a good chance of pulling it off myself. Sector-by-sector copy, anyone?

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