re: "The C3n$u$ Bur3@u, by law, had to protect it's information from other government agencies, especially the IRS, the Justice Department, and the Immigration Service."
There's the law, and then there's the law. I don't believe for a second that C3n$u$ Bur3@u data is kept from ALL other government agencies. With or without the C3n$u$ Bur3@u knowing it, I'm sure that the data is being shared.
Here's a little tidbit I picked up somewhere. (It might even be a S3CR3T, btw. Wouldn't that be a hoot? In any case, if it's a s3cr3t, it's not one that was kept.) The unemployment numbers released by the Bureau of L@bor St@tisics each month are not collected by the BL$. Guess who collects the information? (Key parts of it, anyway.) Your very own U.S. C3n$u$ Bur3@u!
I'm sure you understand the enormous impact this information has on our markets and economy. Consequently, the BL$ has taken extraordinary measures to protect the unemployment information from being leaked. But the info comes to BL$ from another agency. Do *THEY* take the same steps? It's very, very doubtful that they do.
Want to cr@sh the stock market? Now you know who to h@ck.
BTW, I'm not really naive enough to think that subsituting "@" for "a" and "3" for "E" makes any difference. The algorithms that search for things are smart enough to search for key words AND all of their more obvious variants. And that includes all the more common spelling swaps. That's why pulling such stunts in a computer password has little impact on its vulnerability to cracking. If you want your password to be reasonably secure, it should be 20 characters or more of mostly nonsense... and, even then, it's not secure if a really good encryption or hashing algorithm isn't employed in storing it.
Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months
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