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April 15 was the deadline for Americans to file their 1984 tax returns, but for the Internal Revenue Service that date marked only the halfway point in the gargantuan task of sorting and examining 100 million tax reports. Ordinarily the agency, long hailed by intimidated taxpayers as a model of efficiency, is unfazed by the awesome bureaucratic burden. This year, however, an astonishing array of glitches in the IRS's new $131 million Sperry-Univac computers has created an unprecedented backlog of unprocessed tax forms...
Hutton must bear some blame for the apparent inadequacy of the federal investigation. The firm's failure to deliver 18 subpoenaed documents may well have hampered the inquiry. Hutton explained that the relevant papers were only just discovered in file drawers that had belonged to Ball...
Greenspan said that a feature on the thefacebook.com that allows users to export their lists of virtual “friends” had been programmed to store the information as a file on the website’s servers, making it potentially accessible to the prying eyes of strangers...
...problem is that since this is a text file, it doesn’t have any built-in security or authentication,” Greenspan said. “As long as someone knows the name of the file, they can access...
...someone was trying to get someone else’s contact information, they would have to first get their user ID out of over two million users, they’d have to identify which of 50 servers the file was on, which there would be no way for them to know, and then even if they got that, then they’d only have a few minutes before the server cleaned itself and purged the file,” Zuckerberg said...