In a case of closing the barn door after the cows have all gotten out, the Veterans Administration took steps to get its information security in order Friday, a half decade after security alerts were first issued and nearly two months after the largest personal data breach in U.S. history.
Data on a VA laptop stolen May 3 from an analyst's home may include as many as 1.1 million active-duty military personnel, 430,000 National Guard members and 645,000 Reserve members constituting nearly 80% of the active duty force as well. Some of those records included information about active duty personnel's spouses and family members. These records could be used to target military members deployed overseas or their families at home.
In a further example of Louisiana legislators' incompetence, the state senate passed a bill raising the Louisiana minimum wage to $6.15, $1.00 above the national wage. The Democrat senator from Monroe, Charles Jones, had originally wanted the wage to be set at $7 an hour!
The practice of remembering and honoring those who have fallen in our wars remained largely unchanged for generations, until government mucked things up in 1968 by passing the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. Today, we show our appreciation by beginning our school children's summer vacations, sleeping late on Monday morning and spending the week traveling to the nearest water park when we should be honoring their sacrifices.
Members at a Chicago, Illinois-area school district have decided that student blogs they deem inappropriate may lead to denial of extracurricular student privileges. The Community High School District 128, ironically headquartered in Libertyville, Ill., voted Monday night to amend the codes of conduct at Libertyville and Vernon Hills High Schools to read, "Maintaining or being identified on a blog site which depicts illegal or inappropriate behavior will be considered a violation of this code."
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