Larry, I totally see your point but it's missplaced imo. Four years at NSA in the Air Force as a crypto analyst with a Top Secret clearance. I know quite a bit about security although a lot of it is out of date now but I still read some related articles, unclassified of course.

All the firewalls, separate PC's, mil grade 24 digit one time keyword passwords, all that stuff means squat when you hand your credit card to the waiter at a restaurant and he has one of those little scanners that are getting smaller and smaller. Or, some drone at the VA happens to take his laptop out with a couple million files on it or Citibank has an insider who decides to sell the whole database to the mob. Those examples actually happened and I'm sure there's many more. That where the risk is, not your PC or email even though sure, it can happen there too. We think it's "cyberspace", it's not. It's server farms at physical locations with real people working at them. If the CIA can't keep Aldrich Aimes, the Walkers and who knows who else from selling us out to the Russians what makes any of us think some dweeb insiders won't do the same for some cash? You think Citibank hires the FBI to spend six months on security clearances for their IT people? Background checks sure, but not at the national intel level. All the passwords in the world and all those old mil docs you spend time trying to track down mean nothing if an insider at PayPal goes bad.

Just one of the risks of modern living and I don't worry about it.

Bob

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