Making something of nothing
Published by StB on Saturday, December 15, 2007 at 1:06 PM.
I like BG's shared items widget on the side. I read whatever pops up in there. I figure I can get a good laugh out of it as well as some good opinions and food for thought.
Today was laugh day. This had me chuckling:
Crooks and Liars> Coming to a shredder near you
Like a bunch of school girls skipping on the playground, they quickly conclude that because the cost of paper shredding has skyrocketed that Bush and Cheney cannot be up to any good. Thus with glee, the commenters pile on how many crimes are being committed and there just must be bad things going on. If not, why would they have to shred paper at such an alarming rate? Even though some sane people point out that these steps are not only logical, but practical in our day and age of information theft, the frothing of the mouth continues.
Think about where you work. I bet they have some policy on data privacy and how to handle the disposal of information, whether it be paper or electronic. Why would the government have the same policy? In fact, you better hope they do.
Furthermore, let's take into consideration the daily intelligence reports that the president and his staff are given. Do you think all those copies end up in a file cabinet? Of course not. Why would you want sensitive information to possibly end up in a dumpster where anyone can get there hands on it?
No need to overthink this one.
Today was laugh day. This had me chuckling:
Crooks and Liars> Coming to a shredder near you
Like a bunch of school girls skipping on the playground, they quickly conclude that because the cost of paper shredding has skyrocketed that Bush and Cheney cannot be up to any good. Thus with glee, the commenters pile on how many crimes are being committed and there just must be bad things going on. If not, why would they have to shred paper at such an alarming rate? Even though some sane people point out that these steps are not only logical, but practical in our day and age of information theft, the frothing of the mouth continues.
Think about where you work. I bet they have some policy on data privacy and how to handle the disposal of information, whether it be paper or electronic. Why would the government have the same policy? In fact, you better hope they do.
Furthermore, let's take into consideration the daily intelligence reports that the president and his staff are given. Do you think all those copies end up in a file cabinet? Of course not. Why would you want sensitive information to possibly end up in a dumpster where anyone can get there hands on it?
No need to overthink this one.
