May 6, 2005

Computing Officials Worry That Proposed Federal Database Could Be Hacked

By DAN CARNEVALE

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Computer experts are questioning whether a large central database being considered by the Education Department that would list information on individual students could possibly be kept secure, given the high number of hacking incidents that have occurred lately.

The department conducted a feasibility

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