It is much easier to fire a government civilian employee now. The regulations have changed and it is more competitive. Plus, the majority of workers on government installations are actually contracted.


>The government is not the same model as civilian. Civilians can get fired. Cicil Service Unions are notorious! In my estimate - all civil servants are disgruntled! A civilian employee inclined to be un productive and not with the program will usually loose their job before it gets to the point (providing they have the skills) that sabotage occurs.
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>Also, cicilians seem to take a personal interest in the well being of their operation. They don't want to loose their jobs.
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>I can break any system - regardless of how secure it is. It can be SQL, VFP - or what ever, put me at a console, give the same privlidges the so called possible destructive employee has and I will make that database unuseable in less than 2 minutes.
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>>Hi Terry,
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>>The number one security risk is not from the outside, but an inside employee. That is where the majority of security breaches occur (unintentional as well as intentional) and that includes corrupting data by disgruntled employees. I saw this first hand working for the government for 7 years managing the network. Of course when you have literally thousands of users on the same network you have to be a LOT more security concious. And that is on the non-secure systems. :o)
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>>Tracy
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>>>I've heard this security argument before regarding some disgruntled employee with super-power user skills sneaking in and messing up data becuase he got fired!
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>>>I've heard that so many times it makes my brain itch. If it gets you work and it sells SQL - and thats what you need to do - the press on.
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>>>It has never happened - every time this story floats - it's always in the hypothetical. It's BS, and you should know it:-) It's like the Donkey women in Laredo - everybody talks about her - but no one has seen her!
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>>>It's "could be myth" to sell over priced - clunky solutions using fear tactics. I guess that's the environment we're in today. Most damage comes from the outside - not in-house. If I were an IT manager, and some consultant sang that song for my little mom and pop - I would laugh him out of the office:-)
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>>>>>The tool does not build robust applications, the developer does.