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	And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order to the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. - Soren Kierkegaard

Payback time: FTC Chair's Credit Card Info Stolen

San Francisco Chronicle, AP News

Thursday 30 June 2005, 7:17 pm
Keywords: Computer Topics , News Articles

An FTC spokeswoman says FTC chief Deborah Platt Majoras received a letter last week from shoe retailer DSW informing her that her credit card information had been stolen. The spokeswoman declined further comment. The theft was first reported by Newsweek.

Majoras' credit card number was among 1.4 million that were stolen from a company database.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/06/30/national/w13
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Mark says:

Maybe now they'll do something about it. Then again, even this kind of stuff doesnt' seem to spur the government to action. Didn't I earlier post an article about a congressman who assigned his staff the task of stealing his identity, which they were able to do in a matter of a couple of days?