[blisterpeanuts]

This OPM breach is an unmitigated disaster. What were they thinking, storing sensitive biometric information like fingerprints in an easily hacked database[1]?

One can envision a time in the very near future (if not already), when a random foreigner is stopped on the streets of Beijing and asked to press his finger to a reader attached to an Android phone. The device would then display his picture, official position, address, salary, clearance level, etc. Or else, just walk into the restaurant he just left and take the fingerprint off a used glass.

If he's there in some intelligence gathering capacity, the Chinese could then have him followed, or send him packing, or maybe even detain him for a day as a form of harassment, knowing that the U.S. government is powerless to do anything about it. They have us over a barrel.

[1]http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/what-could-...