Rather than being an anomaly, the preventable failures that contributed to the Sutherland Springs, Texas, massacre are a symptom of a vast problem spanning the entire federal government, according to two experts with decades of experience with the electronic records management application standard that undergirds virtually all records management software deployed in agencies across the government. [More]Wouldn't it be something if it turned out there was no safer place for our gun ownership records than a federal registry...?
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Except just because the government can’t locate anything in the data it’s collected doesn’t mean that others can’t.
ReplyDelete"Records that should be destroyed after a certain time are forensically deleted by the application so they can’t be recovered. This should have been the case for a significant portion of the 21.5 million records stolen from the OPM beginning in 2015, according to both Lueders and Prescott. If the records were in a DOD-certified records management repository or managed by the RMS standard, the software would have wiped out a significant portion in compliance with federal laws and regulations, long before a cyberattack, reported to have originated in China, breached the OPM systems.”
The federal government is infamous for creating huge collections of s*t that they then don’t or can’t secure.