G'day Everyone!
As I hear from more of my NTID related friends, the more I realize the OUTRAGE is building among people in the NTID Alumni community. The more letters that arrive out there, the more it gets to be known of who's name is on that list of who landed on that stolen laptop.
One of my friends does suspects that the incident at the NTID offices has to be an inside job. I have to agree. How does one know which laptop to steal with all this personal information? How did this person know when to grab it at the right time right place from this particular office? Did that employee that had the laptop sell us, the NTID community, out? Was it a revenge of sorts? Did he get passed over for promotion? Financial needs? These are the questions that may never be answered for any reason. One person said to me that stealing a laptop would indicate a joke gone very badly. I wish that was true. Unfortunately it's not because it's become a very real incident.
What ever the reasons that the laptop that got stolen, I can tell you that this person's job at NTID is already at an end. No kind of reprimand or resignation is possible. That person must be fired in order for NTID to show responsibility.
In the coming days, if RIT Campus Safety or the Monroe County Police arrest the right person in this case, I will be one of the many thousands of people that will personally SUE this SOB for what he's done. NTID will bear the responsibility for it.
You know what? It's been an honor to be accepted to go to NTID. It's been an honor to learn at NTID towards my degree. It's been an honor to GRADUATE from NTID (RIT) with my degree. For many of the people that work in NTID, they ought to consider every day that it's an honor to work on the NTID campus. Honor equals TRUST. That's what it's all about. Honor. Honor also means RESPONSIBILITY!
But when one of their own does something stupid (ill-responsibility), the honor to work on the NTID campus is gone. The trust is gone. Responsibility becomes overwhelming for others. It makes it harder to work on the NTID campus as a team work. It's harder for the student to learn and graduate from NTID. Redemption is harder to obtain for almost everyone affected by this case.
Rebuilding the trust (honor) becomes an impossible task. A task that won't be easy until the person or persons are CAUGHT with the stolen laptop. When that happens, then rebuilding the trust will become easier to do over time. Responsibility becomes a lot more important than ever.
In NTID's case with the theft of personal data, it's like 40 years was ripped right out of the heart of this institution and now NTID is starting over at year 1 with Alan Hurwitz as it's President.
We will rebuild. We will be stronger. We won't give up. But we will see justice for the very person that has hurt all of us.
Until then, I urge those that have been affected by this very incident at NTID to make an effort to protect your credit files and financial data. Even your other personal data as well. As it shows, we are living in a changed world.
Semper FI.
Update:
I would like to thank those who commented recently. I know I'm hitting NTID hard over the object of one person's abuse. But, you know our life of our credit reports are much more important.
I wanted to say I heard what happened to RSGO007's situation at the bank: rsgeo007.blogspot.com/. Believe it or not, our theft is acting fast already.
also another blogger also left me a link to share with you all :
http://www.jaredlog.com/?p=804 (jared's suggestion of how quickly to put up a fraud alert online.)
So remember folks use any of these important web pages:
Equifax: 1-877-576-5734; www.equifax.com
Experian: 1-888-397-3742; www.experian.com/fraud
TransUnion: 1-800-680-7289; www.transunion.com
Prayer for the month of September: May God help the police catch our laptop theft and recover the stolen laptop.
Semper Fi.
6 comments:
you're assuming that whoever stole that laptop knew there was critical information on it. i think it's far more likely that this laptop was left unattended somewhere and some other person took it, not realizing what was on it.
and hopefully that person won't know what to do with the information on that laptop...eek.
also, i suggest you link to jared's blog so that people can take steps to protect themselves
http://www.jaredlog.com/?p=804
Or it might be an idiotic desperated freshman that needs the laptop.
Oh, I am considering to sue NTID (RIT) for withhelding the information since August 25th. If Democratic Chronicle (sp) did not publish the article, will we know???
You need to calm down and look at the whole picture, rather than become overemotional over this and make speculations.
I think that it is very harsh to say that the trust is gone solely on the basis of a stolen laptop. This is like punishing the whole NTID for the mistake of the only one person.
Let the people at RIT do their job as best as they can do. At the same time, we should do our part as well (i.e. monitoring credit report).
Joseph Pietro Riolo
josephpietrojeungriolo@gmail.com
Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain.
I actually think the person should be arrested and thrown in Jail for not protecting the Laptop or protecting what they are doing at work. The only way an outside person would know about that Laptop is from the inside on a word of mouth about it. There was no way that we alumni were aware our data was place on a laptop. NTID knew about the data being place on the Laptop but they failed to guard and protect that Laptop. They could have locked the laptop nightly in a vault to protect the data on the laptop. They failed to do their job. It is going to take a very long time for them to gain our trust until after laptop is recovered and that data is place elsewhere not within a reach of anyone but the adminstrator and important people. No one else should have had access to those files. I hope the laptop is recover sooner than later.
Thank you all for your comments. But check out this: http://rsgeo007.blogspot.com/
Read that and you'll see something interesting.
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