Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers 492
destinyland writes "A 22-year-old intern said today he's the 'scapegoat' for the loss of over 800,000 social security numbers - or roughly 7.3% of the people in the entire state of Ohio. From the article: 'The extent of my instructions on what to do after I removed the tapes from the tape drive and took the tapes out of the building was, bring these back tomorrow.' Three months into his $10.50-an-hour internship, he left the tapes in his car overnight — unencrypted — and they were stolen. Interestingly, the intern reports to a $125-an-hour consultant — and was advised not to tell the police that sensitive information had been stolen, which initially resulted in his becoming the prime suspect for the theft. Ohio's Inspector General faults the lack of data encryption — and too many layers of consultants. But their investigation (pdf) revealed that Ohio's Office of Management and Budget had been using the exact same procedure for over eight years."
Feed Engadget: kameraflage enables your digicam to see more than you (engadget.com)
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Wearables
While we've already seen what tricks cameras can play right before our very eyes, kameraflage is a slightly different flavor of optical illusion. The patent-pending technology exploits the fact that cameras can see a broader spectrum of colors than our meager eyes, and as the creator puts it, "by rendering content in these invisible colors we are able to create displays that are invisible to the naked eye, yet can be seen when imaged with a digital camera." Currently, it's being applied to garments in able to for cameraphone addicts to find surprises all over while pointing their sensors at unsuspecting humans, and the tech will even be on display at the upcoming 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH Unravel fashion show in San Diego. Best of all, custom orders will be fielded as early as September, and if we've got any interested VCs in the crowd, give this man a holler.[Via c0nn0r]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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I believe the reason the Sims is banned has nothing to do with people learning how to run lives and the like but that it has the ability to have same sex relationships in it. That and the ability to have kids I suppose since they are only allowed 1 per couple ?? Not sure how their rules are now. And seriously, why would you want to teach people how to pee in other people's houses in a game and burn things down or trap people in pools. I think this is the type of mentallity they were trying to avoid. I used to love the game until it just became insanely stupid with the AI unable to learn to keep clean, clean after themselves after dinner and take showers... can you say micromanagement?
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