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SPIRIT Database in Dade County Is Open for Hacking

By Kirk Nielsen

Miami New Times | November 8, 2004

The county’s court system has spent $36 million on a revolutionary new database, but when programmers warned it was vulnerable, they’re the ones who got deleted.

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Tags: Accenture, Angela Lesage, Byron Jones, Masood Hussaini, security risk, Syzygy Consulting, Tom McGovern, whistleblowers, Health & Science

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