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2011-03-10 Science & Technology

NJ about to auction off confidential data

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 A couple of Government Auction sites:

www.govliquidation.com

govdeals.com

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-03-10 00:21|| 2011-03-10 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Thats government we all know and love - especially eastern bloc nations. Those very same systems were already hacked, but the fool that buys the machines gets to play from home base. ahhh, government answers

Posted by newc 2011-03-10 00:45|| 2011-03-10 00:45|| Front Page Top

#3 As a 30+ year bit-head this is one of the things that scares me about computers. Been there done that and got a whole closet full of tee-shirts.

The old joke about "to really screw things up you need a computer" is all too true. Whether it's faulty programming or faulty operations or faulty users the results can be catastrophic.

For a personal anecdote from just yesterday. I got a bank statement from the holder of my mortgage saying that I had $998.00 dollars in my savings account with them. Transactions of $1000 deposit and a $2.00 fee.

Only problem was that we had paid off the mortgage and closed the account 3 weeks before that AND stopped the automatic deposit.

The source of the deposits was checked and sure enough there had been no withdrawl/deposit. The offending statement was rechecked and, yep, the account had been closed. So, the computer had credited $1000 that hadn't been received and charged a $2.00 fee on a non-existing account.

How long do you think this will take for them to straighten out?

Posted by AlanC 2011-03-10 08:58|| 2011-03-10 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by Grace Hooper in the early 80s. One of her observations that stuck with me was her position that the Privacy Act and ADP were mutually incompatible. Something had to give.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-03-10 11:54|| 2011-03-10 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 P2k, where was that lecture? I was at DEC in the 80's and heard her speak several times. She definitely mentioned this at least once that I heard personally, along with her standard "It's easier to ask forgivness than permission."

Posted by AlanC 2011-03-10 12:04|| 2011-03-10 12:04|| Front Page Top

#6 At Fort Ben Harrison, at the Army school for ADP at the time.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-03-10 23:10|| 2011-03-10 23:10|| Front Page Top

#7 ..btw, did she hand out nanoseconds too. I still have mine someplace around here. [That was a piece of wire cut to the length of what an electron could travel in that amount of time]

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