Incdredulous, I actually wrote to the Poteau Daily News & Sun and received a reply from Grover Ford of same paper. As usual, there's more than one side to a story. He sent me the text of the original story that ran in the PDN&S in Feb., 2000.
In the article John M. Corbitt, managing editor of the PDN&S writes:
On the tape, West allegedly told Burchett [PDN&S] that anyone with Microsoft Front
Page, Internet programming software, could enter the PDN&S website, and that
there are no safeguards at all.
West allegedly said he had done a security overview of the site and provided
a technical explanation to Burchett of how to log on with a user password to
PDN&S and "edit your stories."
"Subsequent investigation determined that this intrusion was not done
inadvertently," Headrick [FBI] wrote in the affidavit.
According to court records, West told Burchett on Feb. 7 that he had
"inadvertently" entered the website of First National Bank in McAlester, and
looked at customer checking and saving accounts and the transfers of funds.
Contact me if you're interested in a copy of the full story I got from PDN&S.
I think there are two issues crammed into one here. First, I agree that users (myself included) probably aren't correctly identifying problems most of the time. I've found that most of the time (myself included) the computer is screwing up because it's doing exactly what I told it to do.
But secondly, this does not mean consumer users are losers. Every one of us is a "loser" in some avenue or other. For instance, how many posts have you seen here with misspelled words or very bad grammar? Probably a lot. This does not mean that those people are "stupid," even if an English major might say that.
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A MacSE isn't so old. Now, my Timex-Sinclair, that's old. But the 2K of memory is awesome....
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Well, at least the GUI won't look like it was built with an erector set, like all their previous ones.
When they copied Apple they should have done a better job.
Incdredulous, I actually wrote to the Poteau Daily News & Sun and received a reply from Grover Ford of same paper. As usual, there's more than one side to a story. He sent me the text of the original story that ran in the PDN&S in Feb., 2000.
In the article John M. Corbitt, managing editor of the PDN&S writes:
On the tape, West allegedly told Burchett [PDN&S] that anyone with Microsoft Front
Page, Internet programming software, could enter the PDN&S website, and that
there are no safeguards at all.
West allegedly said he had done a security overview of the site and provided
a technical explanation to Burchett of how to log on with a user password to
PDN&S and "edit your stories."
"Subsequent investigation determined that this intrusion was not done
inadvertently," Headrick [FBI] wrote in the affidavit.
According to court records, West told Burchett on Feb. 7 that he had
"inadvertently" entered the website of First National Bank in McAlester, and
looked at customer checking and saving accounts and the transfers of funds.
Contact me if you're interested in a copy of the full story I got from PDN&S.
But secondly, this does not mean consumer users are losers. Every one of us is a "loser" in some avenue or other. For instance, how many posts have you seen here with misspelled words or very bad grammar? Probably a lot. This does not mean that those people are "stupid," even if an English major might say that.
A MacSE isn't so old. Now, my Timex-Sinclair, that's old. But the 2K of memory is awesome....