TechnoHippie: Ha the problem is they probably have a 50 year old that knows nothing about today's IT security requirements. They'd probably be a lot safer with a high school kid running their website. Don't know about you, but I've been in IT for 20 years and can tell you the kids today were raised on computers and because I work full time I could never keep up with the training required to know everything about security. They, on the other hand, spend all of their free time just figuring it out.

So let me get this right...the police dept's website database contained unencryped confidential data about tipsters and undercover cops and operations? BRILLIANT! So who is the jackass that's responsible for that? They have a high school kid doing their I.T. work?