Oops. Ann Martens blogs on taxpayers' time and now this.
A state worker surfs porn sites on the job allowing in a virus, appropriately called a Trojan Horse spyware virus, compromises 1300 taxpayers' information and the Oregonian spends much of the story lamenting that this happens at many job sites and whether or not those hapless taxpayers will get help cleaning up their credit reports. Apparently they'll save their moral outrage for Karl Rove's truth-telling or the President's trip to Iraq.
But the technology did not stop an employee from using an office computer to surf porn sites and download a Trojan horse, a hidden spyware program not yet known to intrusion-detection software. The Trojan installed itself Jan. 5 and for the next four months secretly captured and relayed data to the hackers who created it. (emphasis: MINE)
More than 1,300 taxpayers are now at risk of identity theft. The Department of Revenue, which disclosed the security breach Tuesday, said the confidential data consisted of Social Security numbers, names and addresses but included no tax records or financial or credit card information.
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Let's see, some moron took a laptop home from the VA and it was stolen, exposing millions of us to possible ID theft. That made the Bush Administration totally inept and cuplable, somehow.
Now, some idiot state employee pulls a similar stunt, exposing state employees to possible ID theft and I haven't heard how inept Kulongowski is over this.
Don't think there is a double standard afoot, do we?
"Blogging and Porn Surfing: Just Another Day on the Job for Oregon's Government Workers." you can't be more right. Very insisive observation.
Amazing how many people brought this up to me at work. Most of them thought the Public Employee WILL NEVER BE "FIRED". I bet most of the SOCIALIST BLOGGER PARASITES on this website do the same thing to the TAXPAYER as this Public Employee.
This is what I am talking about! What the he!! are we paying for! This is ridiculous! We need to change this BS. Get them out! I am willing! I have been here 6 years and know I am stuck here! The local government sucks! God please listen to my prayers!!!!! Do any other parties have a backbone! I would run if I had the money. This BS would end the next election. The politics must stop now! This is what I am talking about! What the he!! are we paying for! This is ridiculous! We need to change this BS. Get them out if there! I am willing! I have been here 6 years and know I am stuck here! The local government sucks! God please listen to my prayers!!!!!
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