: phone tapping-HHS -chip/hep b

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This may be interesting then....

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5102507

Computer sold at state auction contained South Carolinians' information

(West Columbia) June 30, 2006 - A West Columbia woman went to a state

auction looking for a computer, but she found much more. The hard

drive held the personal information of dozens of South Carolinans.

Confidential Medicaid information, names of mothers and babies,

Medicaid ID numbers, and dates of birth are what Barbara Saeger says

she found on a computer she bought at a state surplus sale Monday, " I

was a little alarmed this information was available to the public, and

I would assume that with hundreds of other computers, there's probably

more information out there. "

There were other, more graphic items on the computer as well. Saeger

found pictures showing bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims, so bad,

she can't look. " There's a woman, dead in a chair, and she's been

there a while. "

Barbara says, " I don't even want to think about it. I'll never forget

the pictures, and I'm just glad I saw them instead of my

eight-year-old grandson. "

There was more on the state's computer that seemed out of place,

including a photo of rapper L'il Kim, and documents with passwords

that may or may not contain other sensitive information.

We took the computer to CompuZone on Two Notch Road. In minutes,

technician Suber finds a Columbia woman's Social Security number

on a state job application, no password needed, " To delete it so the

general public couldn't see it, it would take a few seconds.

Bringing it to Department of Defense standards would take a few hours. "

But Suber thinks that level of protection is worthwhile, " I think so,

especially if it has information on it you don't want people to get a

hold of. "

Accessing documents with passwords takes longer, but it's possible.

Suber says, " It's very feasible. If someone wanted the info, they

could do it. "

How? Suber says there are ways, " There's actual programs. This one we

just downloaded from the internet. "

The state says the computer came from Health and Human Services, and

that HHS should have cleansed the computer before the sale.

The agency is now offering to clean Saeger's computer. She's not

interested, " I hope to get rid of it and get another one. I wouldn't

want my grandson to see this. "

The state is responding to our story in several ways. The State Budget

and Control Board, which runs the sale, is contacting everyone who

bought a computer from Health and Human Services to check those

computers for information. They're also putting new safeguards in

place to make sure this doesn't happen again, and they are suspending

all of their computer sales until each computer is checked and the

safeguards are in place.

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> do you think the chip is in the hep b?

>

> Yes (it is the only way to efficiently implement the technology - at

the day

> of birth tied to a unique identifier - i.e. SS#).

http://tinyurl.com/l9uze

> http://tinyurl.com/lptdh Its accompanying secure database of medical

> records is stored on a (HHS) computer system, not on the chip,

facilitating

> the updating or expansion of the data via an Internet accessible

computer.

> It can be updated quickly and easily from your own family doctor's

office.

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> Complements of Tommy