http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.1f88d16f510d886b38f9ad334219fe45.131&show_article=1
US State Department clerk sentenced for passport peeking
Jan 22 09:22 AM US/Eastern
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A US State Department file clerk on Thursday was sentenced to 12 months’ probation for illegally accessing dozens of confidential passport applications of movie actors, professional athletes and other celebrities. The employee, Susan Holloman, 58, was also ordered by the judge in the case to perform 75 hours of community service. Holloman, a file assistant at the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, admitted that between February 2007 and December 2007 she repeatedly logged on to the department’s secure computer database and viewed passport applications belonging to some 70 celebrities and their families.
She acknowledged to prosecutors that she had no reason to access the passport applications, other than “idle curiosity,” a State Department press release said.
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The more interesting question with respect to technology is why was “idle curiosity” possible?
The security systems are obviously REACTIVE rather than PROACTIVE. There should be a way of specifying the “business requirements” such that there isn’t an open playground of personal data.
But, this is the gooferment, and it can’t do ANYTHING right!
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