Comments on: Fugitive Found Working at Homeland Security http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/fugitive-found-working-at-homeland-security/ Information security, a little slower...a little deeper Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:54:10 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/fugitive-found-working-at-homeland-security/comment-page-1/#comment-4332 Prefect Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:06:50 +0000 http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2156#comment-4332 <p>We prefer to call it optimism combined with effectively disguising suggestions as actions likely taken.</p> <p>Although in considering this from the organizations point of view, such an incident would turn out the exact same way in most organizations. That is because very few conduct any manner of background checks on employees after the employee is hired. And there would be some push back on implementing this (cost, perception of a lack of trust).</p> <p>So with that said, this is a good opportunity to see the problem presented above for what it is (primarily a PR problem that immigration can't find that its own people have outstanding warrants), and start to find reasonable solutions (such as regular automated checks against offender databases).</p> We prefer to call it optimism combined with effectively disguising suggestions as actions likely taken.

Although in considering this from the organizations point of view, such an incident would turn out the exact same way in most organizations. That is because very few conduct any manner of background checks on employees after the employee is hired. And there would be some push back on implementing this (cost, perception of a lack of trust).

So with that said, this is a good opportunity to see the problem presented above for what it is (primarily a PR problem that immigration can’t find that its own people have outstanding warrants), and start to find reasonable solutions (such as regular automated checks against offender databases).

]]> By: Alexander Goristal http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/fugitive-found-working-at-homeland-security/comment-page-1/#comment-4289 Alexander Goristal Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:58:18 +0000 http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2156#comment-4289 <p>"this incident will likely result in changes including potentially regular background checks of existing employees, background checks on employees doing job or regional transfers, or verifications against well known law enforcement registries (Sex offenders, National Crime Information Center, et al) at some regular time interval." You have an astounding, naive, and in my opinion (and in conformance with evidence to date) completely unwarranted faith in the capacity of that warren of arrogant bureaucratic hubris to reform itself.</p> <p>-AleG</p> “this incident will likely result in changes including potentially regular background checks of existing employees, background checks on employees doing job or regional transfers, or verifications against well known law enforcement registries (Sex offenders, National Crime Information Center, et al) at some regular time interval.” You have an astounding, naive, and in my opinion (and in conformance with evidence to date) completely unwarranted faith in the capacity of that warren of arrogant bureaucratic hubris to reform itself.

-AleG

]]> By: Seymour B http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/fugitive-found-working-at-homeland-security/comment-page-1/#comment-4151 Seymour B Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:20:15 +0000 http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2156#comment-4151 <p>I can't wait for the Federal Government to be in charge of my healthcare!</p> I can’t wait for the Federal Government to be in charge of my healthcare!

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