Reply #76: Yes.. that was the bit that really surprised me too...

[althecat]

Extremely odd thing to say.

I can only presume that anyone else wanting to have an actual secure system will have to pay through the nose for it.

And it strikes me that if there are huge security holes in Maryland's brand new system - then what about all the counties in California using GEMS. Don't they need to take these steps immediately too.. i.e. disconnecting their Gems computers, removing MSoft Access from the boxes etc. etc.

I am not sure what others think but I actually think this is quite a good article. It leads with the problems not with the whitewash... sure it lets em off a bit.. but a journalist is not a prosecutor. Reading this story it would be hard not to conclude that it begs more questions than it answers. Especially the peculiar line that you have identified David.

In fact I reckon the author put that in for precisely that purpose.

al