Appeals Court Overturns Order Of Internet Shutdown at Interior

[NVMojo]

It's ok to steal Indian money ...it's easy to do, has been done, must be just as easy to steal votes?!

Saturday, December 4, 2004; Page A09

A federal judge should not have ordered the Interior Department to pull the plug on many of its Internet connections without giving the agency a chance to show it had improved security measures, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered the shutdown in March after finding that security holes could have allowed hackers access to hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties from Indian lands managed by the agency.

But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said Lamberth ignored evidence showing that Interior had addressed his concerns and faulted Lamberth for making the decision without holding an evidentiary hearing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32759-2004Dec3?language=printer