Thursday, March 10, 2005

Take that, librarians!

Almost nothing school-related bothers me more than librarians. It doesn't matter where you are, try to do some wholesome internet research and they'll be over your shoulder in 5 seconds telling you that no websites you'll find through Google are credible. Instead, they insist you use some 3rd party program or state-run site created with ancient technology to sift through a total of maybe 3 related articles they deem credible to cite in a paper. One of those highly recommended search tools is LexisNexis. Promised by librarians to deliver great results, I've had nothing but bad luck with it. Well today it appears that someone hacked into the LexisNexis system and stole 32,000 consumer profiles which included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and driver's license numbers. At least this will give librarians time to reorganize their Dewey Decimal systems and put up National Literacy Month posters.

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