Rather Unnerving

From www.identitytheft911.org

Bank Sues Google to Track Errant E-mail
Seeking the accidental recipient of sensitive data
September 24, 2009

In a nutshell, here’s how it went down:

Bank sent e-mail to the wrong person’s Gmail address. E-mail contained confidential account information for 1,325 of its customers. Bank was forced to send out disclosure letters to all customers whose information had been exposed by this breach.

The latest wrinkle in this case born of human error? According to Computerworld, Rocky Mountain Bank is suing Google for the identity of the Gmail account holder to whom the information was sent. Furthermore, it had a motion to seal its lawsuit denied by Judge Ronald M. Whyte of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Just how did a file containing names, addresses, tax identification numbers and other details on 1,325 account holders wind up in the hands of a random Gmail account holder? According to InformationWeek, the bank had received a request from a customer to send certain loan statements to a third-party in August. A bank employee inadvertently sent the confidential account information to the wrong Gmail account.

Upon discovering the error, the employee first “tried to recall the e-mail without success,” Wired reported. The employee then sent an e-mail to the Gmail address asking the recipient to delete the previous e-mail and its attachment. The recipient was also asked to contact the bank to discuss what actions were taken to comply with the bank’s request. Having received no reply, the bank contacted Google to find out more about the Gmail user.

Google has stated that it won’t comply without a court order. Furthermore, “when Google receives legal process, such as court orders and subpoenas, where possible we promptly provide notice to users to allow them to object to those requests for information,” a company spokesperson said in a statement e-mailed to InformationWeek.

As for the bank, it hoped to keep its legal action under wraps in order to “avoid panic among its customers and a ‘surge of inquiry,’” to quote UK tech publication The Register. Clearly, that didn’t go as planned.

Even more scaryness here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/19/the-anatomy-of-the-twitter-attack/

Not Rocket Science

Quick quiz for you...

What's the difference between this list:
 
Martin Scorcese
Woody Allen
Terry Gilliam
David Lynch
Whoopie Goldberg
Natalie Portman

And this one:

Luc Besson
Neil Gaiman
Chris Rock
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Kirstie Alley
Roseanne Barr

?

You've probably guessed already, but I'll spell it out anyway...

The first group believe that a fugitive paedophile rapist by the name of Polanski should be spared the 'inconvenience' of facing justice because

1. He happened to make a few (arguably) 'good' films.
2. He has managed to evade justice for over 30 years.
3. He has 'suffered enough'.

The second group don't. They think a paedophile who drugged, raped and sodomised a 13yr old girl should be returned to face the sentence he fled the country to avoid.

French Minister of Culture, Frederic Mitterrand, announced that he “strongly regrets that a new ordeal is being inflicted on someone who has already experienced so many of them.”

Polanski's mother died in Auschwitz. His father survived Mauthausen. He himself survived the Krakow ghetto.

I suppose then, by Polanski standards, (and, presumably, those of his supporters), all the fugitive Nazi war criminals who evaded capture for so many years deserve the same leniency as he begs now.

Polanski's wife was murdered by Manson and co. If Manson had fled and lived a blameless life, or even a productive artistic and award-filled life, since then, would he be forgiven now?

The fact before us is: Polanski drugged, raped and sodomised a 13yr old girl.  Ok?

One more time, now:

POLANSKI
DRUGGED
RAPED
AND
SODOMISED
A
13
YEAR-
OLD
GIRL.

So,
Fuck the films.
Bugger the awards.
Screw the apologists.
Sod the date it happened.

Bring the spineless (aren't they all?) child-molester to justice.

Why?

Because he drugged, raped and sodomised a 13 year-old girl.

Writer's Block: Airplane reading

[Error: unknown template qotd]A long road trip? In my current mood, I'd be taking anything by Steven Brust. (Audio book if they've got it since it's likely to be me driving).

A plane trip? I'd start with "Learn to Fly Any Plane in Five Minutes" backed up by "How to Make an Instant Parachute Out of Virtually Anything to Hand"