"It's highly probable that they do not know what they have," Nicholson said of the unidentified burglars.
"What they have" turns out to be personal data on some 26.5 million US vets "and some spouses," stolen from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee. (Watch me run to check my DD-214.)
What a bunch of doofuses, huh? Or is that doofii? Well, whatever. If you want YA reason why you don't want the gummint (or anybody else, for that matter) slurping up your data, well there it is.
Meanwhile Reuters, which pretty much negates its "don't know what they have" story by printing it, twists the screw still further with its obligatory scary Internet graph:
"Identity theft, or obtaining the personal or financial information of another person in order to assume that person's name to make transactions, has mushroomed in recent years with the growth of the Internet and electronic business."
Oh no no, Bunky. This has nothing to do with the scary Internet. Or, for that matter, with "electronic business," whatever that may be. Nothing whatsoever. This has to do with plain old-fashioned dunderheadedness, is what it does.
And you thought Katrina was the only thing they could screw up?
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