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Outsourced Confidential Data On Children Posted

Posted by simoniker on from the spiral-of-delegation dept.

Kataire writes "MSNBC exposes a grievous blunder in which an outsourced programmer posts highly confidential data to a public website, concerning the daily whereabouts of hundreds of children in upstate New York. Yes, this person did this not once, or twice, but three times, with two different data sets. Even worse, the data was out there, publicly 'visible' for months. Just because RentACoder finally discovered and yanked it, after a coder 'stuck with a tricky formatting issue' posted the specific database he was working on to their messageboards, doesn't mean the damage is undone. The ramifications reach beyond the painfully obvious privacy issues, touching on outsourcing and peer ethics."

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  5. Re:Not outsourced overseas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    THIS WAS NOT AN INDIAN PROGRAMMER. This was a guy named Mark Dennis. Not a very Indian sounding name.

    Big fucking deal. Indians always change their name in IT to sound more American. I know because I called a tech support line one time. Seems old Robert had a thick accent to him. Let's just say I could smell the curry from a mile away.

    Fuck those elephant fuckers for stealing American jobs. Tell them to go back to 7-11 so they can sell me a pack of Marlboros and a Slurpee.