Well, here's the thing: They are updated. The WISC was introduced in 1949 and updated in '74, '91, and '03. The Stanford-Binet first edition was in 1906, followed by updates in 1937, 1973, 1986 and 2003. These are easily the two most common IQ tests.
This is to compensate for the well-known Flynn effect - check the wikipedia article for a fairly good summary. Make sure you read the whole thing, and don't just stop at THE TESTS ARE FLAWED TROLOLOLOL.
Except you can't actually skip an upgrade cycle, because as the systems age, they start having more hardware failures, and requiring more maintenance from IT, and needed extended warranties, and require more re-format/re-imaging - something that can be really annoying to handle once you've grown past the number of machines you can keep track of in spreadsheets.
A business that 'bills' out it's employee at a couple hundred bucks an hour really only needs a couple hours of machine failure before the opportunity cost of replacing the machine is recouped.
It helps that the government can prosecute a cleared employee in who fucks things up and leaks sensitive information criminal court, not just civil.
That aside though, while they are OK with someone bringing it into the building in most cases, they sure as hell aren't letting you plug it into the LAN - which is what this article is advocating.
That would be great. I would love to see criminal charges for criminal actions at the banks and financial sector in general.
What everyone seems to miss lately, however, is that he can only publish information that is leaked to him.
He's not hacking the DoD or Bank of America. Someone from internal to the organization(s) sent him all this documentation.
With your bare hands?!?
