Re: CRIME Computers vulnerable at Oregon department

From: Crispin Cowan (crispin@private)
Date: Tue Sep 24 2002 - 15:18:48 PDT

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    Seth Arnold wrote:

>the state. Spending $100,000 to improve security might not be worth the
>expense if it would prevent $20,000 worth of fraud; the privacy issues
>are much more difficult to quantify, but spending real money on
>intangible benefits is a difficult sell. :)
>
Why would anyone do identity-theft on welfare recipients? They don't 
have any money to steal :)

Crispin

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