Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Get A Rope

Database admin steals 2.3M consumer records at Fidelity National subsidiary by Jaikumar Vijayan July 03, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Call it the case of hiring a fox to guard the hen house. A senior database administrator at a subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Services Inc. who was responsible for defining and enforcing data access rights at the company instead took data belonging to about 2.3 million consumers and sold it to a data broker. (ComputerWorld)

It is guys like this that give technical workers a bad name. Most of my fellow technologists seem to agree. From an old movie line, "hanging's too good for this guy." Get a rope.

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