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That's one of many "it doesn't apply to me, so it doesn't matter" scenarios.

As the OPM "hack" has demonstrated, the government has no interest and little culpability in protecting the vital and dangerous information it has collected. If it shows this much disregard for the important information, how much less protection will they apply to the unimportant things?

* I hate calling it a "hack" since it's been determined that OPM gave them access to everything. I covered that over three weeks ago too: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/opm-background-check-hack-a-di...



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