Posted on 06/18/2015 4:43:56 PM PDT by Whenifhow
Edited on 06/18/2015 9:13:21 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The technical details are a little difficult here so let
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They will soon have your medical records if they don’t already.
The idea of contracting and outsourcing sensitive information is a bad one. I work in IT security for a state government, and the calls for privatization astound me. I have had to pass security clearances for the information I have access to. Sending the same information to China is just insane.
How did he trick the gruberment into doing THAT?
I’m pretty sure our government is irredeemable at this point.
We outsourced our data security to China? No wonder!
What could possibly go wrong???
Those of us in High Tech could have told them that.
Never trust China or India....NEVER
This crew could create a sand shortage in the desert.
ALL of your credit card information is in foreign hands. There isn’t a credit card company in the US that doesn’t use foreign customer service, software development, or other computer based systems where all of your information is in foreign hands, unprotected.
So is all of your cable, phone, SiriusXM, and other accounts.
We give companies our information expecting them to protect it, yet, read the fine print of all your contracts. You ain’t protected.
They need to look into how the contract award was made. I’ve seen disastrous decisions made by contracting people because they had final say and all they looked at was price even after the technical evaluation panels competently picked what should have been the awardee.
The OPM data breach has massive implications no one is discussing.
Economic threat this creates:
China has around 1.3 Trillion of US bonds. Imagine they ask for payment.
Or they demand submission regarding a political matter, be it a trade treaty or territory.
Next with the personal info for 4 million gov employees,
they activate a dozen credit cards for each of them.
Credit monitoring is overwhelmed. Banking comes to a hault.
China is holding the US by the throat economically.
Politically and strategically:
Imagine they want information on any group or program in the government. They know who has clearance, all of their personal information, their family’s information, incriminating information in the SF86 form.
Whether it is blackmailing a general to alter the course of a war or threatening to leak embarrassing information on any contractor with a clearance to get more data, now they have the ultimate weapon to pull the strings at almost every level of the government, including defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman.
Privatization is not the problem. Here the Fed directly contracted with foreign workers, so government clearly isn’t any better than private organizations (which astounds me when people think the government is better at anything than the private sector). The solution here is to simply not allow non-citizens to work on anything government related. What astounds me is that this isn’t obvious to everyone.
The OPM Data Breach – What To Do Now and In the Future to Protect Ourselves
I believe that this public statement voids and nullifies every confidentiality that has ever been signed, by every federal employee, in EVERY agency, including EVERY ‘spook’, from the determined time of 1985, forward.
I've been transported to an insane parallel universe. This cannot be the one I lived in just a few decades ago.
This is going on everywhere, not only in government systems, but with large defense contractors too.
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