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Author: Robert BaerRobert Baer Date: Feb 12, 2008 22:47
Joerg wrote:
> JosephKK wrote:
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>> Check this out:
>> +++++++++++++
>> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:22:01 +0000
>> From: "Clive D. W. Feather" davros.org>
>> Subject: The risks of upgrading
>>
>> As a result of an upgrade to Vista in Ohio's Marietta High School
>> computer
>> systems, previously protected student information and photos were able
>> to be
>> accessed by unauthorized people. "It appears the students were
>> interested
>> in making changes to their photos in the school cafeteria system." The
>> photos and a student ID are used to verify charges for lunches, and
>> officials suspected some students were manipulating the system to avoid
>> paying for lunches. [Source: Marietta Times
>> <http://www.mariettatimes.com>,
>> PGN-ed]
>>
>> Clive D.W. Feather +44 20 8495 6138 http://www.davros.org
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> So there is such a thing as a free lunch then?
>
...not quite; the taxpayers will pay one way or the other.
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