Posted on 06/17/2015 4:37:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Link only due to copyright issues: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/encryption-would-not-have-helped-at-opm-says-dhs-official/
Link to article:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/encryption-would-not-have-helped-at-opm-says-dhs-official/
Of course not.
Nothing anyone could do. No one’s fault.
No one here is responsible.
The floors sure are waxed to a high shine every day though.
"Some of the contractors that have helped OPM with managing internal data have had security issues of their own—including potentially giving foreign governments direct access to data long before the recent reported breaches. A consultant who did some work with a company contracted by OPM to manage personnel records for a number of agencies told Ars that he found the Unix systems administrator for the project "was in Argentina and his co-worker was physically located in the [People's Republic of China]. Both had direct access to every row of data in every database: they were root"
The Democrat/Republican Uniparty US Government really knows what it is doing. And now the Uniparty want's to control your health care and your health records and in its latest grab for power over our lives, the US gov wants to determine what type of neighborhood you may live in. They're so smart you know --- they know what's best for everybody.
Well, ....Mistakes were made....
Really? No one has transferred COBOL databases to another format?
Uniparty. Wow.
The DOD has outsourced national security to a nation with atomic missiles pointed at us. Does that make any sense to anyone?
You keep forgetting who sits in the White House.
Has anyone else noticed that almost every one of the administrators involved in these breakdowns are incompetent Obama appointees selected solely because of race and/or gender?
Apparently not.
I guess OPM will eventually use the excuse that that there were no funds to upgrade the system. But apparently there are tens of millions of dollars for Moochelle and family to vacation in Europe at taxpayers expense. And The US Government can also try to find the six billion dollars Hillary Clinton lost while playing at being the US Secretary of State.
Can’t encrypt or do two factor authentication in cobol? What a pantload. I code legacy systems using rpg. Even more esoteric than cobol. They could have and should have done it. This pure lazy incompetence on their part.
COBOL forever!
The knock on COBOL used to be "It takes four pages of code to say "HELLO WORLD". With all the code bloat brought on by "reusing" code and the availability of cheap RAM, COBOL must be looking positively svelte by now!
Either that or the writers of the original COBOL programs neglected to document their code adequately (job security).
"REM, what's a REM?"
Sometimes it's just easier to start from scratch.
As it turns out COBOL is fine, just a low level language.
Like FORTRAN, and Assembly.
OPM is not part of the DoD.
And they have a crew of minimum three guys to change a light bulb too.
Oh yeah.
The OPM Data Breach – What To Do Now and In the Future to Protect Ourselves
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