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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: home land tracker software
--On Friday, February 6, 2004 6:52 PM +0000 DAN MORRILL <dan_20407@....com>
wrote:
> http://www.ofaccompliance.com/
>
> anyone want to debate the ethics of this
The ethics of what? Making publicly available information easy to access?
> and the US Patriot act and how
> to secure the system when it is in use or misuse?
Use and misuse of what? The ability to access publicly information? I'm
afraid I don't see what the problem is.
> You can check our own
> name at the web site, as well as more popular folks.
Well, I tried my name, WIlliam R. Murray and William Gates. Got nothing
back. Maybe I did something wrong? I *did* get hits on Osama bin Laden
and Mustafa Mohammed, but that's not exactly a startling revelation.
> As an information
> security person, this worries me. Both from a compliance issue
> (corporate) and on a personal issue.
>
Why? I can look you up in the phone book. I can look you up online in
numerous search engines. I can contact someone who knows you and find out
more about you. I really don't understand what the problem is.
Now, if they were publishing your bank account information, *that* would be
a problem.
> Additional reading US Patriot act, section 326.
>
> All information security related ideas welcome, flames to
> /dev/null/blackhole/no-read-access
>
> My question is : what were they thinking?
>
Ease of use? Quick access to information that could be life saving?
Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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