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Sex Offender Web Pages Insecure

A media investigation into the security of state-run sex offender sites has shown that nine of the sites are insecure. Even inexperienced computer hackers could breach the security of some sites, raising the issue of whether criminals could erase their records or add the names of innocent persons to the offender databases.

Sex offender Web sites are insecure, MSNBC, January 11, 2001.