Only Specialized Knowledge and Equipment Needed to Break Your Bank
This should be filed under Mad Magazine’s “What Me Worry?” section. If “Only Specialized Knowledge and Equipment is Needed to Break Your Bank”… who has that? Only the bad guys I guess.
January 24, 2007
Kansas City Loses IRS Tapes
Second in our series of stupid comments to the press, here’s Kansas City’s assistant city manager commenting on the fact that they lost 26 computer tapes containing personal information:
“It’s not a situation that if you had a laptop you could access,” Noll said. “You would need some specialized equipment and some specialized knowledge in order to read these tapes.”
While you may be concerned the missing tapes contain your personal information, Cindy Richey, a financial planner, said don’t be too alarmed.
“I think people might be surprised at how much of that is already floating around out there,” Richey said.
Got that? Don’t worry because 1) someone would need a tape drive to read those tapes, and 2) your personal information is all over the net anyway.
