To apply for an HQL, you must Release PII to the world

[tc617]

I did not use my SSN or MD Driver's License number on a EMDSP account. I used a secret question and answer. So what PII am I exposing?

Is it the method that they are using to change a password very easily hacked?

 

[Ungermc]

Appears they are using the eGov solutions core libraries for their site (http://www.egov.com/Solutions/CoreServices/Pages/default.aspx).

Also interesting, it also appears their page was modified from an Outdoor Music Festival Permit site...page contains code:

<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><a id="link_reg_business" href="PersonSearchResults.aspx?Facility=Y" style="display:none">Register for Outdoor Music Festival Permit</a></td>
</tr>

Yep, I want to trust my PII to these folks...!

 

[Mr H]

I did not use my SSN or MD Driver's License number on a EMDSP account. I used a secret question and answer. So what PII am I exposing?

Some people DID put in PII, from what I'm reading... and (though I'm not going to try it) is seems it can be read by others.

 

[jpo183]

Sent an email to FNP to report on it...well see, this is completely laughable

 

[huesmann]

pictures no worky

This.

 

[Infantry23]

As mentioned, I would LIKE to think MSP did this for us to throw us a bone in court. They can't really be that dumb. Right?

 

[tc617]

Some people DID put in PII, from what I'm reading... and (though I'm not going to try it) is seems it can be read by others.

Gotcha.

 

[XCheckR]

Hope someone grabbed some screen shots. But i agree with the warning about 'hacking' a govt system.

 

[Vassago]

Do you have to send in your CJIS receipt to MSP after you get your prints done?

 

[Soundman1]

And we're actually paying the MSP to protect us???

All the more reason to retain the capability to protect ourselves!!!

 

[Benanov]

There is no way to change your secret question/answer.

 

[Fess Parkerized]

A system so well designed will prevent exactly ZERO straw purchases.

What danb said...

Some people DID put in PII, from what I'm reading... and (though I'm not going to try it) is seems it can be read by others.

Whoever entered PII may want to go back and remove it, or at least remove their SSN.

 

[miben]

They made it like applying to Groupon. It's probably just another ploy to delay implementation. Once it is shown how inadequate the registration process is, it will need to be shut down and redesigned.

 

[44 Bulldog]

This is really going to stop crime isn't it!!!!!!!!! what a bunch of dumb asses, pretty soon we will be as safe as Chicago.

 

[JettaRed]

OK, here it goes!

"Title 18, Section 1030 of the United States Code, (the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) which prohibits a number of different kinds of conduct, generally involving unauthorized access to, or damage to the data stored on, 'protected computers'..."

"Protected computers" are a computer—

(A) exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial institution or the United States Government and the conduct constituting the offense affects that use by or for the financial institution or the Government; or

(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States.

It is unclear to me (because I am not a lawyer) whether the term "United States Government" is only the Federal Government, or it if includes all government agencies.

Again, these are waters I wouldn't want to test. People go to jail for hacking.

 

[CrazySanMan]

Not a personal thing, so don't hit me , but I have wondered all along why everyone seemed so hot to get into the system and apply.

Sure, there's the "bury them" aspect... but with the history of asshattery with MSP's processes, why not wait to see if things actually WORK??

Three reasons:

1. I want to buy more handguns
2. I want to bury them with paperwork
3. I can be a plaintiff in a case if things like these glitches occur because I actually did try to get an HQL and was denied due to MSP asshattery

 

[DC-W]

Wow. Just wow.

 

[pilotguy299]

OK, here it goes!

"Title 18, Section 1030 of the United States Code, (the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) which prohibits a number of different kinds of conduct, generally involving unauthorized access to, or damage to the data stored on, 'protected computers'..."

"Protected computers" are a computer—

(A) exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the United States Government, or, in the case of a computer not exclusively for such use, used by or for a financial institution or the United States Government and the conduct constituting the offense affects that use by or for the financial institution or the Government; or

(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States.

It is unclear to me (because I am not a lawyer) whether the term "United States Government" is only the Federal Government, or it if includes all government agencies.

Again, these are waters I wouldn't want to test. People go to jail for hacking.

Government means the federal government, or one of it's independent agencies.

If the person who entered the information shared it with others and suggested that they try it, it may be a case of that person providing permission to access that specific record.

 

[dblas]

time for another lawsuit?

Nope, time to go back to the judge and have them slapped around with their own pee pee.

 

[ShallNotInfringe]

Nope, time to go back to the judge and have them slapped around with their own pee pee.

Do it.