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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (188787)	6/8/2006 9:57:20 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I wonder if I'm one of them.. A thousand bucks is a thousand bucks.. ;0) Minus legal fees. The thousand bucks comes from the taxpayers. You might not mind me paying for your $1K, but jlallen is going to pay for it also. I thought I heard the VA was going to notify each person affected with a political spin version of "good luck" Other than that, the only danger that comes to mind is some wacko obtaining the information and using it to physically target Vets for attacks. I think that one is minimal. There was another risk that seemed more likely. You might expect there will be scams in the works offering "protection" against financial loss. They don't have the records, they just contact vets [directly, spams, or on the web] offering protection. Similar to the scam web sites, collecting for Katrina, but all they were doing was running off with the cash. Where there's an opportunity, there's some scumbag to exploit it. There's no reason these people should be taking personal information on Vets home with them. There's no reason why the system hardware/software should permit him to do that. Bells and whistles should go off if someone even tries to download 2 million records. If there is some operational reason why that amount of information has to be resident on a machine, it ought to be encrypted and the system hardware/software should make sure that happens. Never trust people to follow policy unless it's enforced by the system. I knew a guy that took classified home with him on a regular basis [Senior Executive]. He even admitted it to security during his five year update. As you might expect, they told him not to do that. He said he would try, but not make any guarantees. He had too much on his plate and it was a choice of never going home, not doing his job, or taking classified home. Life goes on. The priveleges of the senior executive class. What they should have done with this priveleged person was at least clear his home for a safe. jttmab