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Article #2263Re: Borrowed records from Revenue Canada
From: manis
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1986 20:12
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1986 20:12
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In article <623@water.UUCP> jmlang@water.UUCP writes:
>... knowing that government files, or for that matter any
>files containing personal information, can and will fall in
>unintended hands, I'm am not sure what the safeguards should
>be to minimise any damage. Anybody out there have any idea?
According to an article in yesterday's Globe and Mail, the shoebox in
question lived in a storage room whose walls contained a posted injunction
to return the box or specific fiches when finished with them. Apparently,
Revenue Canada employees didn't have to do anything more than sign out
what they needed; there was no human supervision.
Although I generally don't believe in technofixes, this is one situation in
which a computer system would never have allowed this theft to occur. Can
you imagine any "secure" system which would let a user say "RETRIEVE ALL TO
PRINTER"? A good computer system would log each access to a file, rendering
blanket theft easily detectable ("Mr Bloggins, why did you access nine
thousand files today?").
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utcsri!utegc!utai!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!manis From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: Borrowed records from Revenue Canada Message-ID: <493@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 15:12:03 EST Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.493 Posted: Thu Nov 20 15:12:03 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 19:33:11 EST References: <623@water.UUCP> Reply-To: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis) Distribution: can Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science Lines: 19