w. coyote
Since you're into the business of dealing with "sporting good sales", obviously you are either working with these state computers or your working with the folks who are using them.
Without trying to add to your little cutting "paranoid" remarks, if you reread what I had originally asked for in this thread, maybe you would not have needed to frame your last part of your answer in the fashion that you did. Do you always have such a big problem separating someone's legit questions from the meaning of the word "paranoid" ?
What I said was;
"Since these people are trained in the use of these state computers, and are not state employees, is your Social Security number and other personal important information really being safeguarded or protected? I don't know the answers, so that is why I am asking you these questions!"
How in the devil can you get "I don't know the answers, so that is why I am asking you these questions!" mixed up with being paranoid?
Your first part of your rely was very informative, but why did you feel so compelled to add your last little nip when you said;
"No one can see it. You might want to try an aluminum foil hat, I hear it might block big brother from reading your thoughts. The truth is out there Scully. "
Your logic kind of reminds me of a time when millions of people were told that they were going to get to take a hot shower, and they believed what they were told; until the doors were locked and something else besides water filled the rooms.
Never again should people be afraid to ask why, or to question!