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which contain my most personal information. Once I was noticed it was my time-in-service records; then a few years later, it was the databases containing the information on Federal Civilian Workers. So, in addition to all the businesses that blew off warnings and demands that they update their security and lost our personal information because we once did business with them.. or did business with some other company that did business with them, they've gathered all data from every military person, past and present, and every civil service worker at least to that date (which was about 5 years ago, I think... time has a strange way of meandering and piling up at my age).

The government... neither repug nor democrat... did ANYTHING to penalize these businesses that held our information in such low regard. In fact, they made deals that kept the information of the hacks from us for as long as they could. And, even after the hack, they still refused to implement security upgrades... it cost "too much money" that they didn't want to spend.

So, why does this news bother me so much? Everything there is to know about me is in some evil doer's computer already, one supposes. But you know, it does still bother me. Because nothing is being done in a concrete way. And in fact, the government now is openly giving our info to any evil doer with the enough money to grease the right palm.