Personal info gone missing

This isn't exactly kid-tech news, but if anyone's interested in how some 600,000 past and present Time-Warner employees' personal info went missing, see this very readable New York Times article, which *sort of* explains what happened, or rather does a great job of giving us a picture of how "22,500 gigabytes (22.5 terabytes) of data" are backed up these days. It involves, for one thing, "the homely Ford Econoline 350" van - a fleet of them. Then the article asks some good questions, e.g., "To begin with, why would such sensitive information be handled less like a guard-this-with-your-life briefcase entrusted to Brinks than like a fungible bundle handed to the Dy-Dee Diaper Service? Why was the data unencrypted? And why were trucks involved at all?" Here's earlier coverage at USATODAY and CNET.