{"id":199942,"date":"2007-06-15T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/15\/and-in-the-stupidity-olympics-we-have-a-medal-winner\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T11:15:00","slug":"and-in-the-stupidity-olympics-we-have-a-medal-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/15\/and-in-the-stupidity-olympics-we-have-a-medal-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"And in the Stupidity Olympics, We Have a Medal Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Installing P2P software on one&#8217;s work machine?  Really, Really stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the folks at the Register are a bit too cute&#8230;Privacy cock-up&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/06\/14\/pfizer_p2p_data_leak\/\">Pfizer worker data leaked via P2P<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Privacy cock-up for Viagra makers<br \/>By John Leyden \u2192 More by this author<br \/>Published Thursday 14th June 2007 13:48 GMT<br \/>Why Businesses need Business Continuity &#8211; Free whitepaperMobile computing: Opportunities and risk &#8211; Free whitepaper<\/p>\n<p>Casual use of file sharing by the spouse of an unnamed Pfizer worker has been blamed for leaking personal information on more than 17,000 current and former employees at the pharmaceutical giant.<\/p>\n<p>Unauthorised installation of a P2P package on a company laptop led to the exposure of worker data, presumably after a directory holding the information was inadvertently offered up for sharing to world+dog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing P2P software on one&#8217;s work machine? Really, Really stupid. Also, the folks at the Register are a bit too cute&#8230;Privacy cock-up&#8230;. Pfizer worker data leaked via P2P Privacy cock-up for Viagra makersBy John Leyden \u2192 More by this authorPublished Thursday 14th June 2007 13:48 GMTWhy Businesses need Business Continuity &#8211; Free whitepaperMobile computing: Opportunities &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1060,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computer","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}