Records for 44,000 students on a laptop -- STOLEN

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:04 pm

WTF were these files doing on a LAPTOP????

Records stolen

A laptop computer containing the personal information of more than 44,000 Cleveland State University students, previous students and applicants was stolen from the university's admissions office.

The university issued a statement Friday, a week after the computer was taken.

Information on most of the students included addresses and Social Security numbers and could reach back to student rosters 4 years old

How much you want to be the damned thing didn't have a password, either?

This is downtown Cleveland, you idiots! Damn computer should have been a desktop workstation, cable-locked to the table.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:18 am

Science has made it more and more convenient to efficiently fuck up our lives beyond comprehension.

--J.D.

Skeptoid · Post by **Skeptoid** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:58 am

I disagree, Doc. People are stupid. Rest assured that 6,000 years ago some idiot Sumerian left a clay tablet with sensitive information on it laying around, just as efficiently fucking up the lives of those concerned beyond comprehension. :roll: :D

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:59 am

Skeptoid wrote:I disagree, Doc. People are stupid. Rest assured that 6,000 years ago some idiot Sumerian left a clay tablet with sensitive information on it laying around, just as efficiently fucking up the lives of those concerned beyond comprehension. :roll: :D

You cannot carry that much information on a clay tablet.

I win.

--J.D.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 1:06 pm

Doctor X wrote:
Skeptoid wrote:I disagree, Doc. People are stupid. Rest assured that 6,000 years ago some idiot Sumerian left a clay tablet with sensitive information on it laying around, just as efficiently fucking up the lives of those concerned beyond comprehension. :roll: :D
You cannot carry that much information on a clay tablet.

I win.

--J.D.

It was a very big clay tablet.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 1:32 pm

Must have been double density.

--J.D.

statisticool · Post by **statisticool** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:00 pm

The hackers were like 'This clay.. it is so easy to crack.'

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:34 pm

Though you could really get burned trying to get through a fire-wall.

--J.D.

Bottle or the Gun · Post by **Bottle or the Gun** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:06 pm

Clay tablet encryption was done by wrapping a tablet in more clay. Pretty easy to crack.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:02 pm

Then came the "floppy disc" craze of papyrus. Lasts for centuries unless it comes in contact with water.

--J.D.

Mulebear · Post by **Mulebear** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:06 am

Wonders what Sumerian 1337 speak looked like.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:54 am

It was largely replaced by Hammurabi's Code. . . .

--J.D.

Mulebear · Post by **Mulebear** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:28 pm

I just want to know what "h4xx0r ru!3z" looks like in Sumerian. Is that too much to ask?

Luke T. · Post by **Luke T.** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:31 am

And so another biblical prophecy comes to pass. The 44,000 have been raptured. Now comes seven years of tribulation for the rest of us.