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But, there are thousands of things more dangeraous than lost backup tapes,
that you do NOT have to report. And, you even have to report ENCRYPTED backup tapes being lost.

If we are trying to stop identity theft, we are barking up the wrong tree by focusing laws on backup tapes. Like the author said, thieves will walk out with the data on a 2 gig USB drive, or just download it over the internet. They do NOT want anybody to know when or even if the data was stolen.
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Not such a big deal after all  Roger Ramjet | 02/07/06
So, I'm assuming that ...  coffeenite | 02/07/06
But, there are thousands of things more dangeraous than lost backup tapes,  DonnieBoy | 02/07/06
Sure, there are more dangerous things ...  coffeenite | 02/07/06
But we are talking 1000x more dangerous, with no reporting required.  DonnieBoy | 02/08/06
Yes ...  coffeenite | 02/08/06
Oracle is the easy part  voska | 02/07/06
Organized criminals would NOT go after tapes, they don't want you to know  DonnieBoy | 02/08/06
Why the the average thief?  jsargent | 02/08/06
People don't find tapes......  Edj_z | 02/08/06
My thoughts exactly. You have to report even ENCRYPTED backup tapes being  DonnieBoy | 02/07/06
So, you have data on an internet facing computer. A zero day  DonnieBoy | 02/07/06

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