Thanks for the link Phule
All were given warnings that the computer program they used could have allowed hackers direct or indirect access to TVA computers and caused damage
Bullshit!:|
Richard Chambers, TVA's inspector general, said: "If you're allowing others to tap into your computer, you have got some additional risk there."
wtf are they on about? if they are that paranoid about being hacked then why have an internet connection at all!?
Don Hickman, a senior manager in the TVA inspector general's office, said the staff knew the SETI program could allow hackers into a computer system and pointed to a news story showing at least one successful infiltration of SETI's Web site.
Hackers tricked the SETI Web page into giving them thousands of e-mail addresses of SETI users and then sent users notes claiming to have more information on them.
They really are grasping at straws here :| ,the hackers hacked a SETI Email database NOT any SETI client.
That could of compromised their Email ,if a virus was sent to that, but I would hope they have good security their ,& anyway it's nothing to do with the SETI client.
But David P. Anderson, director of the SETI project, said hackers have never damaged the project's computer system or any computers of its more than 3 million users the past two years.
Downloading the program from the University of California at Berkeley, called SETIhome (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), was both a violation of written TVA policy and computer security,
Now that is the only real reason that they should be disciplined for ,they didn't have permission ,(I finally get my answer).
BTW I wonder what team they are on?