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As has been said on here many times, the problem is with a lack of accountability. My information was stolen as part of the OPM hack. No one has taken my iden
by hereforphone 5y ago
As has been said on here many times, the problem is with a lack of accountability. My information was stolen as part of the OPM hack. No one has taken my identity yet, but various nations no doubt know that I used to work in sensitive positions, and pretty much all my private information.
You know what the government did about this? They gave me free credit monitoring for a certain number of years. Enough critical information / infrastructure is online that heads should roll with each major breach.
There is apathy toward security on a large scale. There is apathy toward identity thievery. I grew out of the "death to capitalism" stage of my life decades ago but in this case it is obvious that money is protecting the big players.
- wil421 5y agoWould they really know if you were truly in a sensitive positions? I’m sure janitors, food service workers, and front desk people went through the OPM process. There are probably a lot of people working in government buildings that don’t even use a computer.
- mox1 5y agoThe SF-86 is an incredibly detailed document. I would agree they aren't after low level people in sensitive positions. But that document lists family members, past residences, perhaps previous crimes, etc. Its the same document from high level people down to the janitor. Its extremely useful from an intelligence perspective. Allows you to connect A LOT of dots.
- wil421 5y agoYea unfortunately I know how detailed the SF-85 is. Luckily it was a public trust specifically for IT stuff not the full blown one but I think the only difference was it looked at 7 year history vs lifetime.
- hereforphone 5y agoI'd argue that a janitor with a TS/SCI + polygraph was working in a sensitive position.
- wil421 5y agoTons of stuff isn’t TS or even Secret. There are a lot of public trust checks with varying degrees of questions.
- ethanbond 5y agoPretty sure being able to get through the front gate at many government facilities counts as sensitive.
- aenario 5y agoThe very notion of identity thievery is "BigMoney" (banks and credit rating) putting on their customer the responsiblity of what we used to call fraud.
- ls612 5y agoBut the customer is basically never actually responsible for fake debts and accounts opened in their name. By law and practice the banks end up eating almost all of that cost. So this whole idea seems somewhat questionable to me despite being a popular meme on HN.
- GartzenDeHaes 5y ago> that heads should roll with each major breach It's not uncommon for government agencies to put their security manager in an at-will position for precisely this purpose. In other words, they have hired people for the purpose of having heads available to be cut so the people with authority are not at risk.