Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Your information is completely safe with us. We are the government.

TSA Laptops With Hazmat Driver Info Stolen - Storage Security News Analysis - Dark Reading: "The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is in hot water again for losing sensitive data, and this time around it has national security implications: Two laptops were reportedly stolen from a TSA contractor that contained personal information about commercial drivers who transport hazardous materials across the U.S."

Elsewhere today, Verizon admitted it opened up its calling records to let everyone from local police to the Feds rummage through your calling records - and those of the people you called, and those that they called, and so on. And the ex-Qwest CEO, convicted of securities fraud, files an appeal saying that the NSA wanted to tap all the Qwest phone lines but that Qwest said no and thereafter, got taken off from some big government contracts resulting in their financial melt down. So he says.