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Australian Stats Agency Goes Open Source 51

Posted by timothy on Friday December 17, 2010 @12:55AM from the as-it-should-be dept.

jimboh2k writes "The Australian Bureau of Statistics will use the 2011 Census of Population and Housing as a dry run for XML-based open source standards DDI and SDMX in a bid to make for easier machine-to-machine data, allowing users to better search for and access census datasets. The census will become the first time the open standards are used by an Australian Federal Government agency."

IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347

Posted by samzenpus on Friday December 10, 2010 @02:19PM from the bad-idea dept.

aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."

Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability 248

Posted by timothy on Friday February 26, 2010 @08:56PM from the only-need-half-as-many dept.

PCM2 writes "ABC News is reporting that the US Secret Service is in dire need of server upgrades. 'Currently, 42 mission-oriented applications run on a 1980s IBM mainframe with a 68 percent performance reliability rating,' says one leaked memo. That finding was the result of an NSA study commissioned by the Secret Service to evaluate the severity of their computer problems. Curiously, upgrades to the Service's computers are being championed by Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who says he's had 'concern for a while' about the issue."

Don't Worry, Sir, I'm From the Internet 5

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 14, 2008 @11:50AM from the to-protect-and-serve dept.

I feel safer already.

Comment What about the information gathered??? (Score 4, Insightful) 157

by DivideX0 on Sunday February 05, 2006 @01:26PM (#14646261) Attached to: Operation 'Cyber Storm' Starts Tomorrow

Suppose their attacks allow them to get into various machines and networks, what will they do with the data that is accesible in those machines?

Is this just another end run around warrantless search and seizures of data?

What kind of oversite is there on this process and how can we be sure the information is not used, stored, or otherwise desiminated among the various US spook agencies and their foreign lackeys.

And how much do you want to bet Google will be a very well excercised target since they have been fighting the governments abuse of power already.

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