Posts Tagged ‘Iowa’

Messaging Mishaps Have Collateral Damage

Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

A few weeks ago I wrote about recent situation in which the Des Moines public school system superintendent’s career was brought to a standstill (it is yet to see whether it is temporary or permanent) by using the public school email system to exchange 115 personal messages, and including at least 40 cases sexually explicit messages, with her lover, married with children highly decorated Army Captain Hintz.  Since that time he has been fired from his position as head of Army Recruiting Command, a Des Moines-based recruiting company.  So not only was one person’s misuse of her employer’s email system the cause of her own career downward detour, it also has had ripple effects and derailed the career of the man who was corresponding with her, and likely also further ripples out to damage his family.

More privacy and security lessons

In addition to the lessons from my earlier post, this provides additional lessons: (more…)

Messaging Misjudgment Kills Careers

Monday, June 18th, 2012

June 22 update to this topic: Today the judge refused to block the release of the emails as Sebring and her lover requested. See http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120622/NEWS/120622012/Judge-announces-decision-on-Sebring-email-release

In the past few weeks the use of emails at work has been in the news a lot in central Iowa, and the news quickly spread around the globe because of the sex and intrigue involved.  Basically, approximately four months before the end of school, the Des Moines Superintendent of Schools at the time, Dr. Sebring, started sending what would end up being over 40 very personal and sexually explicit messages to

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Iowa Takes Compliance Very Seriously…

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Woman Jailed for Overdue Book

Iowa Takes Compliance Very Seriously…

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Woman Jailed for Overdue Book

Iowa Land Records Association Posts SSNs…Including The Governor’s…On Their Internet Site

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Okay, here’s another example of a ridiculously dumb privacy breach that occurred, in Iowa this time, through a government agency posting information on the Internet…

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Iowa’s Fields of Digital Dreams

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

I knew that Microsoft was planning to build a large data storage facility in Iowa, but I was a little surprised to see that they will virtually be neighbors with me!

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Privacy Breach, Hackers and Lawsuits: Iowa Department of Education, Microsoft and Perkins Omelettes; Oh My!

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

There’s been enough interesting information security and privacy news here in my own frigid (subzero) snowy back yard in central Iowa to keep me from looking beyond the state for discussion material. Well yes, I did look beyond anyway…what I found will wait until another day.
Yesterday was interesting in that the Iowa Department of Education announced a security breach into their GED database and the Microsoft versus Comes/Iowa class action lawsuit was settled out of court.

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