Ohio Plans To Encrypt After Data Breach

Lucas123 writes "After a backup tape containing sensitive information on 130,000 Ohio residents, current and former employees, and businesses was stolen from the car of a government intern in June, the state government just announced it has purchased 60,000 licenses of encryption software — McAfee's SafeBoot — for state offices to use to protect data. It's estimated that the missing backup tape will cost Ohio $3 million. In September, the state docked a government official about a week of future vacation time for not ensuring that the data would be protected."

Calling all Buckeyes!

[pegr]

Help me close this barn door, would ya?

Gotta love government jobs...

[Stanislav_J]

The state loses $3 million bucks, and the guy responsible gets the punishment of a whole week of lost vacation time? Wow....I want to find me a job where I can screw up so badly and get off so lightly. I mean....other than the Presidency.

What ya want to bet...

[lax-goalie]

...that the next time they get a backup tape stolen, it'll have a post-it note stuck to the tape with the password on it?

Re:WTF

[fireboy1919]

I absolutely know that I don't want to hear the story of how those four words got used in the same sentence until happy hour is nearly over.

Yeah? Well, I wouldn't mind. Not the sentence they added.

Perhaps this one:

"After I checked the backup tapes to ensure that 512-bit AES encryption was working, and that the tapes were still readable, I closed and deadbolted the tape room, and then went out to my car to go to lunch with the new (darn good looking) intern from the art department."