for those of you who play WoW

[DirtyD86]

unless you run a child pornography website from your PC, or sell military secrets to the chinese, who cares?

there is no personal information on my computer anyone other than myself would ever care about, and the same probably goes for about 99% of the people that play wow. i dont know many that have a text document on their desktop titled "BANKING INFORMATION AND ALL MAJOR PASSWORDS NECESSARY FOR THE STEALING OF ONES IDENTITY OMGZ"

 

[tlarkin]

unless you run a child pornography website from your PC, or sell military secrets to the chinese, who cares?

there is no personal information on my computer anyone other than myself would ever care about, and the same probably goes for about 99% of the people that play wow. i dont know many that have a text document on their desktop titled "BANKING INFORMATION AND ALL MAJOR PASSWORDS NECESSARY FOR THE STEALING OF ONES IDENTITY OMGZ"

OK, how about a key stroke logger that logs all your usernames and passwords for everything you do online. Banking, bill pay, cell phone, credit card, etc. This isn't just about personal files, it is about personal privacy.

 

[massahwahl]

The government is also a cluster f**k of information. I mean I read recently that the IRS in Ohio was keeping off site back ups on thumb drives given to interns! Guess what, the intern lost the thumb drive and the article made Fark.com. I work for the government and I was subjected to a mandatory background check. It took them over a week to get the information from the other states that I lived in. The government is just so inefficient when it comes to this type of thing. Also what the government has is either mandatory or I have given it to them. Socials, Driver's License, birth certificate are mandatory and are government records. The government does not have access to my hard drive and they are not sending/receiving encrypted files at will.

I am not paranoid by any means, i am just saying that if I played WoW I would be mad about my personal privacy rights. I don't have anything sensitive on my computer besides a few tax records, which the government already has anyways, but I don't want other people reading my financial data.

I could give two shits less about WoW, but thought I would comment on this since I live in Ohio and this affected me.

The intern did not have thumb drives with info on it, he had a whole god damn laptop (they call it a 'backup device' but later admitted it was a laptop) with thousands of peoples tax information and SSN's. He left it in his car UNLOCKED overnight at an apartment building. My finacee was one of those thousands of people whose SSN was on that machine. Again, dont care about WoW but thought I would offer a correction. Heres the story>http://www.ohionewsnow.com/?story=sites/10tv/content/pool/200707/2107193666.html

 

[tlarkin]

that makes more sense, because when I first read the article I was like who would steal a thumb drive? They aren't really worth anything. But stealing a laptop, that makes much more sense.

Anyway, that made me laugh a lot of how dumb the government is with data.