full-disclosure - Undisclosed breach at major US facility

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Date: Wed Jul  5 05:49:43 2006
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Undisclosed breach at major US facility

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:25:15 EDT, Stack Smasher said:
> Like I said, shareholder value and profit plays a huge role in people
> getting off their ass and doing something to help the general public,
> seeing as how you have mostly worked at a university you don't have an
> executive board screaming at you 

Universities have their equivalent of executive boards, trust me.

And when you have almost 7,000 full time employees, the annual budget is $821M,
and the R&D budget alone is $268M, the management acts the same whether it's a
university or a corporation. Trust me on this one too.  And yes, I'm not
pulling those numbers out of a hat:

http://www.vt.edu/aboutvt/universityataglance.html

(And even at a quarter-billion a year, we're only #55 on the research list -
there's places where the money being tossed around is even bigger, and upper
management acts correspondingly....)
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