The Deets

I used to work at a bank where I had to seal and initial the bag of trash at my desk every day at the end of the day before it was stored for a few weeks to make sure nothing went missing. On the other end of the spectrum, we have this video from Chase showing loan applications with customer’s complete application information thrown away in trash put out to the street:

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Of all the ways your privacy could be stolen, you’d hope it wasn’t due to your bank’s incompetence at protecting the information you share with them.

Bruce Schneier found a great article on the resources put into protecting children from crimes of incredibly horrible odds, while at the same time stuffing their children with crappy food what WILL take years of their lives:

Meanwhile, as rates of child abduction and abuse move down, rates of Type II diabetes, hypertension and other obesity-related ailments in children move up. That means not all the candy is coming from strangers. Which scenario should provoke more panic: the possibility that your child might become one of the approximately 100 children who are kidnapped by strangers each year, or one of the country’s 58 million overweight adults?

At least they’re “safe” at home in front of the TV or computer with a can of Mountain Dew in one hand and a bag of Doritos within reach.

Obesity kills. Here’s a BMI calculator. Try it.

MSP Observation Deck, originally uploaded by s4xton.

Aaron offers a great reminder about the coolness of the MSP observation deck along with this hilarious nugget from his observing from the observation deck:

Two of them were fully uniformed TSA agents making out.

Uniformed make out sessions? Wow.