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Outsourced Confidential Data On Children Posted
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."
Officials at the New York State Office of Children and Family Services and in Livingston County, where the incident occured, are investigating. Livingston County's social services office is located in Lima, just a few miles south of Rochester, N.Y.
If it's an outsourced programmer, shouldn't it be Lima, Peru?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Outsourced moderators, of course.
This was a guy named Mark Dennis. Not a very Indian sounding name.
True, but if you replace the 'rk' in Mark with 'ndara' and the 'nnis ' in Dennis with 'eptanshu' then you have Mandara Deepthanshu. That, as I am sure you will aggree, sounds Indian to me.
Guess my sig goes double now...
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Dibbs on his 3 digit user ID when his company has him killed!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
True, but if you replace the 'rk' in Mark with 'ke' and the 'nnis ' in Dennis with 'epshiticancause thecompanyiamabouttoquit' then you have "Make Deepshiticancausethecompanyiamabouttoquit" sounds like an inside job to me.
On the other hand, they know you just searched for your name. Check back in a little while...