From the feature well: The only thing worse than a data integration project is a data integration project gone wrong. And they can go down so many different dark paths. In the perils of dirty data, five such tales emerge, including the ‘Dear Idiot’ letter, a high-tech rendition of Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls, and ‘the war on error’ among others. “Don’t let your own project become someone else’s horror story,” Dan Tynan cautions. In Data mischief new editor-in-chief Eric Knorr shares one pleasant — and profitable — information integration surprise. Security: While one-third of all employees admit to circumventing security policies on the job, according to a study due for release this week by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, “combine those results with the notion that many of these types of incidents also likely occur without employees’ knowledge of their mistakes, and the survey result gains even more weight in terms of its overall gravity,” Matt Hines reports in Auditors: Employees missing big picture risks. “Seemingly even worse, 65 percent of those interviewed reported that they are unconcerned with securing their privacy while using a workplace computer in general, and 63 percent said that do not worry about the security of the information they handle at work whatsoever.”Careers: “You’re advising people to lie!” is a common reaction to his work, Bob Lewis admits. “Actually, I don’t say that. Were I the sort to be completely honest under every and all circumstances I might be tempted,” he writes in when telling the truth is more immoral than not telling the truth. “My first objection to ‘always tell the truth’ is, which truth? The truth I want to immediately blurt out before I stop to think? Or the truth that only comes with reflection?” Notes from the field: Robert X. Cringely calls TJX Dumber and Dumberest because “just when you thought the data breach couldn’t get any uglier, it does.” That’s right, banks now claims that TJX had 94 million credit card numbers stolen, twice what it first claimed. “The other numbers are equally staggering.” Take the 80GB of data hackers moved across the Net from its servers, for one. A sniffer set up camp on TJX servers for more than 7 months. It gets even worse. “Yet despite all this, sales at the company’s stores (which include TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and Bob’s Stores) are actually rising.” Technology Industry