Locking the door after the identity horses are out -- and stole

OK. I understand the notion of wanting to release more information about who/what was stolen from Equifax in B.C. so that we can take greater care to determine whether we're personally affected and be vigilant about what happens to our identities if we have been affected. That's what this Globe and Mail story refers to. BUT, more detail in the public domain may not be the best long-term strategy for Equifax (for sure), for those affected, and for keeping other criminals at least a little bit in the dark about the internal machinations of such data repositories.

Besides, it's clean up time now. Taking precautions in a general, public way should have happened after the last major theft from IBM's outsource site in Saskatchewan last year.

Posted by Grayson at March 17, 2004 09:23 AM