Fred Cirera

Tennessee is reporting that 337,000 voter names and social security numbers have been stolen. You can read the complete news here

For at least the past year, I have read information like this almost every week. I don’t understand why governments, or corporations employees are still carrying around files full of the public’s personal information. I also don’t understand, why their hard drives are not encrypted. Encryption software is cheap, and very easy to use. It would solve the problem of the lost or stolen laptops.

Losing people personal information by negligence should be considered a criminal offense.

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Update: 12/31/07
Personal Data Theft Reaches Unprecedented Levels in 2007

Everyone heard of http cookies. Everyone knows that cookies can be a problem when it comes to privacy. But everyone is not aware that flash player have their own cookies mechanism.

If you go on this page you’ll see a little flash application provided by Adobe to mange your flash settings and the cookies stored by flash.

Here is how the application look like.