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Judge Disconnects Interior Dept., Again

Posted by timothy on from the just-like-texas-justice dept.

jeremycec writes "Evidently, nothing's been resolved since 2001, when this happened the first time. In these Memorandum Opinion and Preliminary Injunction documents from Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., we see how the court stepped in to pull the plug on a system, which, through its abject lack of due care, left someone's important financial information wide open to attackers. According to the former CIO of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: 'For all practical purposes, we have no security, we have no infrastructure, ... Our entire network has no firewalls on it. I don't like running a network that can be breached by a high school kid.' So, when the BIA could get no relief through Interior's IT Dept., it went to the courts. Source: Government Computer News "

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  1. Good. by James+A.+A.+Joyce · · Score: 2, Troll

    It's really very simple, people; if you leave personal information about me lying around on a network which a mere script kiddie can break into, then you deserve to get sued. If you take no measures to remedy the situation, even after being repeatedly warned, and then my details get stolen and sold on, you WILL get sued. Why? To send a message. I hope this happens to more companies so that they get serious about data protection. Heck, even schools have crappy information security. I should tell you about the kind of thing I could get off the school network and the lax treatment of passwords...

    --

    Bash script for FP whores

    1. Re:Good. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      "Ah, Mr. Joyce, another Interesting/Insightful comment. Where did you copy this one from?"

      Myself. Stop trying to sully my reputation, you incompetent cocksucking GNAA spy! Go ahead, call me paranoid, call me troll, but for God's sake just STFU AND GO FUCK A CHICKEN FUCKHAT!!111

  2. Yes But by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How can we blame this on Bill Gates/RIAA/SCO ?

  3. Okay... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This matters to non-amerikkkans in what way? We aren't all fat, food obsessed, smelly amerikkkans on the internet (thank the gods). Grow out of your lame prejudices slashdot.

    -Troed

  4. Mod parent up funny! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hell, I got a fucking great laugh out of it and I'm the very James Motherfucking Joyce he's trying to insult! AhahahhaaahaaahHAAHAHAHAAA! Ten links to Goatse! Hahahahhaa! Used a semicolon incorrectly! Aahahahaha! I'm the greatest author who ever lived and this turdbrain thinks I can't use a semicolon! AaaaaahAHAHAHAHHA! I've seen people who count karma even more closely than I, and you've completely missed the point of its existence; karma is just your score on Slashdot, duh! Even if I am a "n00b", whatever the fuck that it is, I still wrote "Finnegans Wake", which is more than you ever did. I know my UID is high. So? There's 693,000 users here - your point? And besides, I get of on my "little RPG fantasy".

    Actually, now that you mention it, making a website about it is a fucking great IDEA!! I'll make a Broadway production about it; ahahhahaHAHAHAHHAHAH! GNAA FUCKHAT!