May 05, 2007
Authorities realized Thursday the hard drive was missing from a controlled area at TSA headquarters. TSA Administrator Kip Hawley sent a letter to employees Friday apologizing for the lost data and promising to pay for one year of credit monitoring services....TSA employs about 50,000 people. That should give you an idea of the turnaround at this vital agency. While the uniformed TSA screeners were carefully selected (11 out of 12 applicants were rejected when TSA was formed), the "exemp" non-uniformed employees were often not carefully chosen. Many cushy slots were filled through cronyism.In a statement released Friday night, the agency said the external - or portable - hard drive contained information on employees who worked for the Homeland Security agency from January 2002 until August 2005.
Uniformed TSA personnel must requalify every six months in a grueling, weeklong process of "recertify or hit the road." The "command" personnel have no such requirement, and, indeed, are not even certified to watch the exit doors at airports.
Or even watch what the hell is going on in their office environments...
Previously in the saga of the TSA Executive Service.
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The government needs to operate with the same level of paranoia commercial insurance companies and banks used to operate with. Back in the 80's and 90's we (I was with IBM in Boca at the time) produced machines that were medialess because the banks and insurance companies demanded it for data security reasons. I recall that BofA even had us put special code into DOS and BIOS to support the medialess models they were buying.
Simply put, this is bullshit and heads need to roll, and keep rolling until such time as someone who doesn't have their head firmly inserted in their butt is found who can architect and implement a competent data security plan.
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