Data leak affects 100,000 sailors and Marines


Government can not keep personal information secure. Why should we trust it with RealID? Why do they need to know? Why don't they trust their own citizens?
I certainly hope that stories like this will help derail the RealID train.

The Navy said on Friday that it was trying to determine how personal information on more than 100,000 Navy and Marine Corp aviators and air crew wound up on a publicly available Web site for more than six months.

In a fresh case of private information on military personnel being compromised, the full names and social security numbers of both active and reserve members appeared on the Naval Safety Center Web site (not working at press time) last December.

Those affected are believed to include any Navy or Marine Corp aviator who has served during the past 20 years.

The same information was also disseminated late last year to Navy and Marine Corps commands on 1,083 program disks mailed out as part of the service's Web Enabled Safety Program.

The question is not if government can improve security enough to protect the data. Although they can't. The question is why is this personal information made widely available in the first place? Right now it is affecting government employees and members of the military. But ask yourself before it's too late.

Why does the government need your personal information? If it has the information, why does the government need to share your personal information? How low in the hierarchy will your information go?

You think there are serious problems with identity theft now, just wait until RealID kicks in.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - July 10, 2006 at 04:49 AM  Tag


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