The Skipper, over at the Barking Moonbat, give us an update on that stolen lap top computer with the personal ID of millions of active duty & retired military personnel.
The Skipper makes an astute observation that could help protect the identities of our service men & women:
I forget when it happened, but sometime after WWII the military stopped using random generated numbers for serial numbers of members and started using Social Security numbers for military serial numbers. So all they needed to do was forward the letters to the IRS with a list of SSN's and the rat finks at the IRS (could locate you).
Sounds like old school is at times the best solution in an age of leaking information data bases and porous borders.
Oh, Mr. Roosevelt! Didn't you promise us back in 1933 that these social security numbers (a misnomer if I ever heard one) were not going to be used for personal identification information? Whatever became of that, Mr. Roosevelt?
Mr. Roosevelt?
