New scandals popping up on a regular basis
MSNBC News reported February 6, that an auditor office in
USA had checked a state computer from the National Health
Service. A state computer put up for sale as surplus
contained confidential files naming thousands of people
with AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. And at
a technical university in Massachusetts, USA, two students
bragged about how they were in possession of significant
amounts of sensitive information after having purchased
used hard disks via the Internet auction company eBay.
The general impression is that PC-users are taking the
problem much too lightly. The rate of upgrade to new,
larger computers is greater than ever, and unless special
security measures are taken, many of the old PCs will
still contain information - such as detailed patient
journals, confidential documents, passwords, business
secrets and sensitive political documents -- that the
former owners would not much like to have fall into the
wrong hands.
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