I remember when the fax machine was cutting-edge technology. Among the first people to use this cutting-edge technology were the scammers running the Nigerian 419 scam. You had to do a lot of work to get all of those faxes out there and you probably didn't get a lot of pickup. Then the Internet came along and the ability to hit millions increased.
When you have one point of contact of information you can only be so successful. When you have two or three points of information about a person you can become very successful.
In my office, I deal—as I'm sure my colleagues do—with people who have been or are being victimized by these scams all the time. These scams are much more sophisticated now as the technological changes happen.
My question is in terms of government, financial and medical information. Protecting that information is vital because that's where the non-government actors are going and what they're looking to use. What assurances do we have that as we put more of our private information into one big system, we're actually being protected?