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Privacy Matters…

This may be old news, but I am, pardon the expression, sick and tired, of the expression “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about…” etc. etc.

 

To which I emphatically declare: Hell Yes You Do!

We know what it’s like when a precious piece of tech goes missing: Our hearts palpitate, we have trouble breathing, and we try to keep panic at bay long enough to do an inventory of what exactly we had stored there. Some of us are lucky enough to find/recover the MIA device; others aren’t so lucky. Well, this time the unlucky was joined by none other than NASA itself.

Personal data of staff members was seriously compromised when a laptop was stolen from an employee’s vehicle. The worst part? There was no encryption, just the standard password protection that many hackers worth their salt could infiltrate.

NASA had the unenviable task of informing its employees about the security breach this week:

On Oct. 31, 2012, a NASA laptop and official NASA documents issued to a headquarters employee were stolen from the employee’s locked vehicle. The laptop contained records of sensitive personally identifiable information for a large number of NASA employees, contractors and others. Although the laptop was password protected, it did not have whole disk encryption software, which means the information on the laptop could be accessible to unauthorized individuals. 

 

 

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