Sunday, March 22, 2015
Once Again Texas Leads the Way
Houston Press: The Fort Bend Sheriff's Office just sent a press release to news outlets all over Texas that revealed the credit card, checking account, Social Security, and driver's license numbers of hundreds of people. You see, the email contained a photo of these items that were kept in a lost and found room at the Santikos Palladium theaters in Richmond.
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In the late 1990s, when I was still in the corporate world, I worked for a company where Human Resources emailed an Excel file to all employees that listed all company employees, their office location, and phone extension. But what the Einsteins in HR had actually done was taken the entire employee database and just used the HIDE function to, well, hide the columns containing personal information (SSN, salary, etc.). It didn't take five minutes for someone to "un-hide" the columns and, despite HR's frantic efforts to retrieve the email, learn what everyone else was making.
/Ah, good times.
Good times, indeed!
Same thing happened where my Dad worked and the damage that did to morale was huge.
Computers are not always our friends.
There's a old saying, "Those who can't do, work in Human Resources."
I'm sure they meant that to be a PRIVATE email.
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