thedailywtf.com — Through negligently bad programming at Oklahoma's Department of Corrections, the names, addresses, and social security numbers of tens of thousands of Oklahoma residents were made available to the general public for a period of at least three years.
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romeyromeApr 15, 2008
People wonder what I don't want to work for the state. I don't want it to lower my IQ.
infamousatheistApr 15, 2008
True - but the average douchebag (and there are plenty of them in OK and other rural states) doesn't necessarily know how to protect their credit. You and I know how to place fraud alerts, or hire a service to do it for us, with the credit bureaus. Joe Bumblef**k probably doesn't because it can be a major pain in the ass, particularly for someone who doesn't know much about technology and finance. The f**king state of Oklahoma (and retailers, and anyone else who stores such info) should be held liable for any damages these people suffer since the state failed to protect the information necessary to commit identity theft.I would like to see some other method of identification used or stricter limits on the ways creditors can issue loans, open bank accounts, etc. in people's names. Our SSNs were never intended as an identification tool and now that they have turned into that, the whole system's f**ked up and we see people's lives getting ruined because of it.
divisiblebyzeroApr 16, 2008
Yeah, the law needs to catch up to speed a little bit in these cases. What he did was probably technically illegal, but given the circumstances it was the only way to stop the bad code. In the end, the negligent coders should be the ones held accountable.
2oonhedApr 16, 2008
Canada is a place where all the people have pac man heads and when they talk? The entire top half of their heads move up & down, up and down.......oh and they have been poised to attack America for quite some time.....any day now.......any day.
mcse2k3Apr 16, 2008
Who cares if the offenders had their information available to anyone? If someone wants your SSN and information bad enough, they will get it. It's not a secret anymore!
cannonballApr 16, 2008
And Oklahoma voted Bush for president, twice. Whatever...
Closed AccountApr 16, 2008
In 30 years there will be no more Texas it will revert back to Tejas.
Closed AccountApr 16, 2008
Exactly, I think as a citizen I have a right to know if I am living next door to a felon or a sex offender and what he looks like. God knows how much stuff never get reported in the media as is.
lunarshape31Jun 23, 2008
Oklahoma is a backwards state overburdened with a far-reaching sex offender registry that list people on it for peeking at a few dirty pictures and teenagers having consensual sex with other teenagers! Now they're listing even more folks on the registry database. This idiot state and a few others need to re-examine these public registries that black-list non-violent offenders, even children, on them. It costs millions and raises your taxes.
lunarshape31Jun 23, 2008
You mean sex offenders like teenager Rikcy, who had consensual sex with another teenager? Or maybe the guy who urinated in public? The SOR is corrupted.