The Times had an article on the theft by three Homeland Security employees of a set of personal data of DHS employees.
What were they going to do with the data?
Well, they were going to write software, or rather copy and modify the IG's software for managing IG cases and sell it to other IG's. And the stolen data was going to be used to test the software as they developed it.
What a change in 30 years. Back in the 1980's and early 90's I very casually moved around sets of live data saved from county office systems to serve as the basis for testing new software. While we had the Privacy Act requirements, we weren't really conscious of privacy restrictions and security. Consequently I, and others, could do then what would be firing offenses today.
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