A theory on data theft

A simple google search using data+theft yields 66,600,000 hits. That’s a shitload of articles on data theft. With the ever ongoing revelations about data theft, I’m getting the impression that this is something more than ‘accidents’.

Veterans Administration, Texas Guaranteed Student Loan, Wells Fargo, Choicepoint, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, HSBC Holdings/MasterCard, hotels.com, MCI, Ohio U, etc. etc. You get the idea. [br />

Screwing on my :tinfoilhat:, I’m starting to wonder if this isn’t bu$hCo campaign to make identity/data theft so prevalent that the Reich Wing congresscritters can introduce a bill to ‘secure’ or ‘ protect’ citizen data. Perhaps something along the line of RFID or biometrics may be a good final solution for this problem.


So, am I getting too paranoid or have I just tripped on another hidden agenda?

NOTE to anyone who wants to steal this idea and expand on it: Go for it. I'd love for a blogger with excellent writing/research skills to turn this into a major piece.

therefore, I agree with you. :)

I'm just saying I'm glad you're seeing the same thing I am.

And most of them were covered up for a time. The stories all sound the same, just the names changed.

if given the chance. And it sure looks like they are creating their chance.

'Give us your freedoms so that we can protect you, as there are bogymen in every shadow'.

It's probably just coincidence that bogymen start popping up everywhere when RW-ers run the show, be it in politics or business...

Not that the concern is unjustified; but we've seen far too often, especially in more recent years, how things are only getting worse. Can't entirely blame America for that...

this may be something organized, but I would suggest it may be one or more foreign intelligence agencies behind it.

How about simple organized crime. That's the simple and obvious culprit, if indeed this isn't just a string of accidents.

Then, it may be GOP operatives looking to construct some kind of master data base for G-d only knows what unconstitutional purposes. Election fraud? Political profiling and mass roundups? Identity switching on a huge scale? Need more data to confirm that one.

how an international cabal of high ranking military loose cannons intentionally destabilized various points around the world, in increasing frequency and magnitutude, in order to justify riding in on white horses, claiming to quell the unrest in the name of stability, and then basically owning everything under martial law.

I think the data theft is similar to that, I think it serves two purposes: one, to quickly achieve TIA (total information awareness) in complete defiance of civil liberties, disquised as "thefts", instead of carefully planned harvesting operations.

but, you ask, if its secret, why let ANYONE know about it?

because reason two is to completely frighten everyone about the safety of their data to the point where the cabal rides in on white horses, implants RFIDs, and declares database martial law.

Why else do you see the US refusing to open up the internet to anyone but themselves?

Something like this isn't an isolated mistake anymore.

We are only hearing about the really big data thefts -- the ones that must be reported.

What else is happening that we aren't hearing about??

for now.

once they've got that down, then anything goes.

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