The NSA FOIA Office Sent Me Someone Else's Private Document By Mistake
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#2Wow, just wow
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#3The weird part is that the envelope was printed twice. I could get accidentally putting the second letter into the same envelope, but this seems more like a system error than an individual mistake
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#4Like 2 years back, i was trying to manage the montly ISP calculations for my parents, and i had to talk to the customer service to get the data. Talking on the phone, i got a customer-Nr and a PW and log in to the account. Just a sec. later i realiced there was something wrong.. the account i just got the credentials to wasnt from my parents. Mistakes happens all the time, and i guess not only at my ISP.
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#5Goes to show that humans are always* the weakest link in information security.
*For anyone who doesn't like absolutes, consider it a rounded statement
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#6You mean mistakes sometimes get made ? Shock horror.
Now what is this doing on HN again ?
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#7I wonder why the first line of Mr. R's letter ends with "requestof" instead of the "request of" seen in Mr. Cavalletto's letter.
That kind of variation is unusual in a form letter like this.
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#8You mean mistakes sometimes get made ? Shock horror. Now what is this doing on HN again ?
Just flag it.
Re: The NSA FOIA Office Sent Me Someone Else's Private Document By Mistake
#9You mean mistakes sometimes get made ? Shock horror. Now what is this doing on HN again ?
This is on HN because NSA has craploads of information on everyone, and errors like these can send that information to people that should not have it.
Proving the point, that NSA should not have that craploads of information stored in first place.
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#10Should the that fact that he made two simple spelling errors[1] "beaurocracy" and "undemines" leave us to wonder about the veracity of his statements? Everyone makes mistakes. Before he received the second letter did he think NSA was infallible?
[1] And/or the questionable use of "the letters' assurances."