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Duct Tape's avatar

I don't care how secure the database is supposed to be, it can and will be compromised at some point. I am an unabashed Cold Warrior. I dedicated myself to that conflict. Buy the way, we won. Anyway, my duties entailed knowing things that shouldn't be bandied about. The Air Force bestowed ever increasingly dire levels of access on me. We were all told that whatever came up in those background investigations would NEVER see the light of day. Then the Clinton Administration took over. Soon after the first inauguration everyone who had a security clearance received a letter telling us that somehow (gee, I wonder how) our Security Clearance files AND the reports of our background checks to include the interviews with everyone from our spouses to our 3rd grade teachers had fallen into the hands of both the Russians and Chinese. This happened 3 more times before Bill left office. Like clockwork. Then things settled down. I left the Air Force and became a civil servant. Again, my job required a Security Clearance. Not 2 months after Obama was sworn in I received the familiar FYI letter telling me that the Russians and Chinese now had every detail of my Security Clearance. No blackmail potential there! All told I have 11 of those letters. The last 2 came during this administration. Notice a pattern?

The take away is that you should keep your information off as many databases as possible. If the Feds can't help but compromise data that directly effects national security then what chance do you have with a dodgy private company and the local County Health Department?

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Alice's avatar

When I was growing up they preached safe sex or abstinence. Today they offer free monkey pox shots and they are shocked by the exploding cases of STDs. It isn’t scary if you act appropriately.

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