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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."

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  1. thank god by midspot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lucky for all those on the list of the guy sueing the penis enlargement companies that that was not the db released.

    Those guys would never find a date if all women knew of their "little problem"!!

  2. In other news a poor geeky indonesian programmer.. by jamonterrell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...has been whipped to a bloody pulp with a wet spaghetti noodle for dishonoring his mother country by making a blunder when asking for help at an online forum. Apparantly the deceased had forgotten to remove sensitive information from a post for help on a public forum. There will be no funeral services, nothing is left to be burried.

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    I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.
  3. Re:Not outsourced overseas by SoSueMe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Chicken.

    Do you wear a visor when playing hockey?

    Joking.

    Don Cherry is a Dork!