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FairPort Accused of Faking Network Readiness Test
wytcld writes "When Verizon spun off its Northern New England lines to FairPoint, FairPoint leased Verizon's computer network to manage them. This was costly, so FairPoint readied its own network. To prove its own network was ready for the switchover a demonstration was prepared for an outside auditor, Liberty. Now a whistleblower claims: '...when Liberty was watching what they thought was "flow thru" within a system and from one system to another, they were really only seeing a small program that was created to assimilate what they wanted the systems to do. They were not actually in the systems at the time nor were they in the test systems. They were in a newly created small program that used screen shots from the real system to deceive the audience into believing that they were watching a real demonstration.' How easy is it to find auditors who can be fooled by such a simple trick? Whether or not the test was faked, the network has proved so unready that FairPoint is close to bankruptcy, and may have its licenses to operate revoked in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont."
First, if you don't know what a word means, please don't use it. Even if you think you know, it's most likely that you will use it wrongly.
But that's the penultimate use for the word "assimilate" that I've ever heard!
Next week we'll learn that Fairpoint is being approved for a government bailout Stimulus Package.
...that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
No, he meant "assimilate". You see, by the end of the audit, the consultants had become part of the Collective, and were willing to sign whatever the Borg Queen told them to.
What are you going to do when you get an auditor that asks you why you aren't using the Ovaltine decoder ring because that's what they read was recommended?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.