| What was becoming a major crisis is now over, as | | | | 100 names of individuals with social security numbers, |
| Veterans Administration gets the Laptop back, which | | | | drivers licenses numbers, names and addresses on it, |
| had Personal Information on it of over 26 million | | | | as well as personal financial records.My Gosh this is |
| veterans. Luckily the stolen laptop was recovered, | | | | the very agency required to help protect the |
| but may I ask why the government has this | | | | American People from Identity Thieves, but cannot |
| information in the first place on portable laptops?And | | | | even protect them selves. How utterly pathetic, you |
| it is not just the Veterans Administration it is all sorts | | | | have to be kidding me, after all that hoopla and press |
| of other agencies too. Identity Theft is running | | | | releases and public relations campaigns and they |
| ramped and the government is to protect the | | | | themselves fail to protect their own team at the |
| American People, yet if you look at the situation it is | | | | Federal Trade Commission?Folks we need a complete |
| the government who is messing up the most.In fact | | | | over haul of bureaucratic BS in Washington DC. The |
| the Identity Theft laws are to be enforced on | | | | problems with Identity Theft are the governments |
| businesses by the Federal Trade Commission, but the | | | | fault, how can we trust them to protect us? |
| Federal Trade Commission lost two laptops with over | | | | Consider this in 2006. |