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Comment Re:Criminal liability ... (Score 2) 82

Their only a "victim" due to lax security. The corporation broke the law too, by not properly securing their data as required by HIPAA law. And we SHOULD accuse them partially for the success of the criminals, as they enabled them twice. Once by having crap security, and two by not even noticing for an entire year. The HIPAA law might have changed since I did audits, but your supposed to do them on a yearly basis as well. So, triple failure.

As a side note, there seems to be a marketing opportunity here for security companies to do active domain name "dyslexic" attacks. It seems it would be trivial to have a script that transposes numbers into the real URL and does a WHOIS on a scheduled basis. Really, there are probably a dozen employees at Carefirst who could do this. At my job, probably over 50% of the people I directly work with could either do this off the top of their head or figure out how to do this in a few days; and their not even programmers or such.

Comment Re: Criminal liability ... (Score 2) 82

Doesn't matter, HIPAA law doesn't have a designation that says "non-profits don't have to follow this law". Care First should be receiving a fine for every piece of lost information. Just because it's member owned doesn't mean they don't have to do security audits, real-time monitoring, etc. If anything these "members" who own it should be on the hook personally for the fines. If it's "your business" (ie, member owned) and your making profit off it, you should also be an active participant in the business.

Comment Re:As usual... (Score 3, Informative) 379

I hope you never have a job that asks you for your opinion on this type of issue, since you couldn't be more wrong. It's even in the article...

Title 17 of the United States Copyright Law, which denotes that the “Copyright in a work protected under this title vests initially in the author or authors of the work”; in the case of photography, the individual who presses the shutter is the ‘author’.

In addition, the District’s Board Policy Manual explicitly states “a student shall retain all rights to work created as part of the instruction or using District technology resources.”

Comment Re:Camer was owned by the school (Score 4, Insightful) 379

Nice try Coward, but both copyright law AND the school's own policy disagree with you. This is even in TFA itself: "Title 17 of the United States Copyright Law, which denotes that the “Copyright in a work protected under this title vests initially in the author or authors of the work”; in the case of photography, the individual who presses the shutter is the ‘author’. In addition, the District’s Board Policy Manual explicitly states “a student shall retain all rights to work created as part of the instruction or using District technology resources.”"

I hope you don't have a job that depends on you giving them advice like this, because if you do your company is probably violating the law all the time based on your "idea" of how the law works, as opposed to reality.

Comment Re:Metorite cult (Score 1) 190

It's not "bad" about Muslims, it's a fact. There is a big rock that they all make a pilgrimage to, in Mecca, named Alhajar Al-Aswad. It could also be a piece of shock glass from an impact. And your not quoting me about "blinding", I didn't type that. Not sure why you think I said anything about "blinded by a meteorite"...maybe you should read my comment again? Here is some info on Constantine and the possibility of a meteorite fueling his conversion, or at least his conversion of everyone else since he didn't actually convert until on his deathbed.

It's not "bad" if they worship a space rock, it's somewhat common. It does seem a bit paradoxical for a religion that is so iconoclastic to hold a physical object in such veneration.

Comment Metorite cult (Score 1) 190

returning to the stars. Quite poetic, for a country who worships the Alhajar Al-Aswad (The Black Stone). Saul, who became Paul, also was spooked into religion by a meteorite...Constantine's "vision" may well have also been burning, falling rocks. The UAE most likely has some pretty advanced tech for looking at water...launching a probe to Mars isn't the difficult part. That is getting the probe deployed and functioning properly once it's there lol.

Comment "Legal" immunity maybe... (Score 2) 118

by allowing them to hack unfettered, eventually they will come across someone who will hack back. By giving them immunity, it removes any possibility of legal recourse; the only path left for those who've been wronged by GCHQ hackers is now to follow far more illegal paths for retribution. "From Hell's heart, I strike at thee"...once the courts deny this, it will become an even more dangerous game.

One would think that Britain has had enough past experience of what happens when their rulers remove accountability from specific segments of their subjects. When the Courts won't listen, the next step is often quite bloody.

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