Interior Dept. wins computer shutdown reprieve
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
The Interior Department won a reprieve Friday from a judge’s order to disconnect from the Internet all computer systems with access to accounts it manages for thousands of American Indians.
In a motion filed in federal courts, officials had said disconnecting the computers would cause “massive injury to the public interest and the operations of government.”
An appellate court on Friday granted a stay allowing the department to appeal the judge’s ruling.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the shutdown on Thursday, saying the department’s computer security was so bad that hackers could easily break into the system and access and manipulate the Indians’ account information.
posted by Fergie @ 10/21/2005 02:36:00 PM
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