I’m guessing the hackers have messed with the wrong people this time.
Shame on Stratfor for failing to encrypt their customers’ private information. There’s no excuse.
Our educational system is so lacking in building bright and better students for the foreseeable future compared to other countries in fields of engineering, science; etc. We build the iPads, the Apples, etc of the world, but the users on different shores, not always friendly, can be smarter in their adaptation and its usage thereof. The US is so focused on Entertainment while other countries build their strength in these fields with advanced education in order to survive a very threatening world where dominance becomes a global board game. We are now rated "average" compared to or ranked 14th by the OECD.
I remember a story run some years back where a administrative person or teacher in some college, univ; did not want a particular Industry/telecoms/Internet coming into their place of "higher learning" to guide and teach the students useful knowledge that would help them gain successful employment after graduation. That teacher did not want a company to be training what should the "free thinking" of her students. [for lack of a better word].
Perhaps industry should set up their own institutes of higher learning for those who have an interests,foresight or gifts along a related line of education to match their industry. A parent is aware of his or her children's strengths/gifts from an early age and has become completely frustrated to see what is natural inclination to learn on whatever task, fall along the way side by tax payer dollars funded inept Dept. of Education, government run programs and teachers who lack the skills and intellect to teach[ as they fall victim to the education given to them].
Academia, the Teachers vs the Doers, Inventors is so separated in reality.
Education as it is today is so failing our students who cannot now compete scholastically with countries who spend far less per student [my re tax bill goes in great majority to the school district]; but graduate a better "product" for their country's future..which makes for an even weaker America.
Unless the hackers stole “bait” data.