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Court Allows Arkansas To Hide Wikipedia Edits
rheotaxis writes "A circuit judge in Arkansas will not order the state to reveal where its computers were used to edit Wikipedia articles about former governor Mike Huckabee while he was running for President. Two Associated Press journalists used WikiScanner to track the edits to IP addresses used by the state. Writer Jon Gambrell and News Editor Kelly P. Kissel filed a suit in October 2007 asking the state to reveal which state offices used the IP addresses, because state rules don't allow using computer resources for political purposes. The director of the Arkansas Department of Information Systems, Claire Bailey, claimed in court that releasing this information would allow hackers to target these state offices."
When Reverend Huckabee runs for president again in 2012, just remember then that you can't see how much of his Wikipedia entry was cooked by his staffers still buried in the Arkansas government he controlled up until he ran for 2008.
Consider how Reverend Huckabee destroyed evidence on many state computers to cover probable crimes (hard to prove when he's destroyed the evidence) when he left office in Arkansas to start campaigning for president.
Reverend Huckabee stands for faith based government. Why shouldn't he rely on a "mysterious hand" to improve his image?
And keep in mind just how much power he'd have with a covert government built on the foundation installed by Bush/Cheney.
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But the architect's drawing of the bank could reveal it's actually not very secure at all, if it reveals a point of attack that's easier than going after the vault door.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
Gorshkov (932507) said: ...there's a butt load and a half of network administrators working for the state that need to be fired - and the sooner, the better.
Unless Arkansas' IT department is radically different from those of states I'm familiar with, this is pretty much a given. You didn't really need the qualifying "if".