FAA Network Hacked

coondoggie writes "The Federal Aviation Administration has joined the growing list of government agencies that have had their supposedly safe systems hacked. The agency this week notified about 45,000 employees that one of its servers was hacked into and employee personal identity information was stolen. The FAA was quick to say the server that was accessed was not connected to the operation of the air traffic control system or any other FAA operational system. It did say two of the 48 files on the breached computer server contained personal information about more than 45,000 FAA employees and retirees who were on the FAA's rolls as of the first week of February 2006."

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[soconn]

Arghhh... Call Jack Bauer!!!!

Re:NOTE: This is NOT the ATC network

[causality]

I've always wondered how often I can get modded informative for repeating a statement in the summary...maybe it's time for a broad experiment... 1. Post a re-iteration of something in the summary 2. Piss people off by getting modded "Informative" 3. ??? 4. Profit!!

It's just an example of poor-quality moderation. Much of moderation involves subjective judgment calls and the like, but in this case, I can say with confidence that there is nothing "Insightful" about repeating what I just read. I'd really like to see just one discussion that doesn't include such blatantly "WTF were you thinking?" low-quality moderation (again, not referring to judgment calls). Just one -- is that so much to ask? Slashdot badly needs to bring back the old metamoderation system. The one where your mods getting marked as "Unfair" influenced how often you received mod points again and you were informed of your score. In my opinion, Idle and the new metamod system are evidence that they had a good thing going and just had to keep fucking with it, like they couldn't resist.