RE: CRIME Computers vulnerable at Oregon department

From: Myers, Mike (Mike.Myers@private-LMCO.com)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 08:35:35 PDT

  • Next message: T. Kenji Sugahara: "Re: CRIME Computers vulnerable at Oregon department"

    Perhaps you should do that, but instead of limiting the fields to view,
    limit who's records can be seen -- just folks in the legislature? :)
    
    I often thought it would be nice to have a copy so I could call the parents
    of the teens who speed through my neighborhood but I've never pursued this.
    
    Cheers,
     - Mike.Myers@private-lmco.com
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: brvarin@private [mailto:brvarin@private]
    Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:23 AM
    To: Crime List
    Subject: Re: CRIME Computers vulnerable at Oregon department
    
    
    
    The funny thing about the DMV list is that nothing happened until some guy
    put the whole CD online and made it available for query. It was funny to
    sit there and watch the Governor demand that it be taken offline but he had
    zero power to take it offline. The guy agreed to take it offline if they
    passed a law and they finally did but as stated below, it's so watered
    down, it's not much of a deterrent to getting the data. I've been tempted
    to pay for a biz license and get the CD because my "business" has a
    business interest(Uhhh....I'm a telemarketing firm..that's it). Post it on
    some server overseas and watch them freak out. Maybe start out by only
    allowing certain fields to be seen. That's really the only way our
    worthless Legislature is going to do anything about it. Not that it's going
    to help....it seems like every week some crank addict is getting arrested
    for identity theft with a few CD's of DMV records. Is it a coincidence that
    Oregon is one of the top states for ID theft?
    
    
    
    
    
    
    From:  Alan <alan@private>@cs.pdx.edu on 09/25/2002 07:48 PM
    
    Sent by:    owner-crime@private
    
    
    
    To:    "T. Kenji Sugahara" <sugahara@private>
    cc:    Andrew Plato <aplato@private>, Crime List <crime@private>
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    Subject:    Re: CRIME Computers vulnerable at Oregon department
    
    
    On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:59, T. Kenji Sugahara wrote:
    
    > Risk management needs to be all over this issue.  Identity thieves have
    > already been caught with copies of DMV records on CD.  What's next?
    > Each breach could cost the state millions with ensuing litigation.
    
    The DMV records situation is an interesting issue.
    
    When those records first appeared on CD, there was a big stink about
    it.  They tried to restrict the records. (Seems just about anyone can
    get a copy just by providing media and a small fee.)
    
    You know who pretty much killed that idea?  Lobbying by the mass mailing
    companies.  It is one of the biggest sources for their mailing lists.
    
    Now they just restrict it to "people with a legitimate interest".
    (Whatever the hell that means.)
    
    --
    Alan <alan@private>
    
    
    
    
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