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Jun2-06, 06:18 AM   #1
 
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UKentucky *accidentally publishes* faculty SS#'s

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The University of Kentucky inadvertently posted about 1,300 employee Social Security numbers on a Web site that was accessible to the public for several weeks last month.

"This is a regrettable incident, and the University considers any breach of privacy and confidentiality a serious matter"...

The school learned late last week that a spreadsheet containing the personal data was available online. It immediately was removed from the school's server, the memo said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060601/...identity_theft

If anyone wants to know my opinion, I think bureaucrats this stupid shouldn't be allowed to operate spreadsheets. Not even with adult supervision.
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Jun2-06, 06:34 AM   #2

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Jun2-06, 06:44 AM   #3
 
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Everyone makes mistakes...
I've yet to see the secrets of the H-bomb mistakenly put up on the home page of Los Alamos:

http://www.lanl.gov/
Jun2-06, 09:17 AM   #4
 
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UKentucky *accidentally publishes* faculty SS#'s

I am sure some bureaucrats could be replaced with a single transistor, a
low gain one would do.
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What makes you think this had anything to do with a bureaucrat? It was probably just a secretary slipping with the mouse and moving the file onto a public folder of the server rather than the secure one. Frustrating for everyone affected, but these types of mistakes are just far too easy to do anymore.
Jun2-06, 04:19 PM   #6

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I've yet to see the secrets of the H-bomb mistakenly put up on the home page of Los Alamos:

http://www.lanl.gov/
Good argument
Jun2-06, 04:58 PM   #7
 
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I've yet to see the secrets of the H-bomb mistakenly put up on the home page of Los Alamos:

http://www.lanl.gov/
You can find those on wikipedia.
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