Lee faced 58 felony charges that accused the scientist of illegally downloading nuclear secrets from secure Energy Department computers.
Requiring reporters to use Labor Department computers "moves an independent press into a position uncomfortably close to that of a government deputized captive distributor, " said Daniel Moss, a Bloomberg News executive editor, in testimony submitted for the June House hearing.
The department and the media firms reached a compromise that let the firms continue using their own computers and data lines to ensure fast delivery of economic news but let the Labor Department control access to the computers and supervise maintenance of the equipment.
As part of the probe, investigators last summer asked for Bloomberg to turn over one of their computers at the Commerce Department, according to people familiar with the probe.
Department, China bought advanced computers or their key components.
In December, Judge Lamberth ordered the Interior Department to shut down all its computers for ten weeks because trust-fund records were vulnerable to hackers.
The newspaper reported Monday that a GAO investigation had found data indicating that an unauthorized person had gained access to computers at two overseas posts, causing the department to shut down at least part of one of its international computer systems.
But think back: for the past 30 years, as computers swept through business settings, geeks from the IT department have been telling the rest of us about the paperless office of the future.
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The Department of Health collated the statistics from data gathered on hospital computers across England.
Bad enough that Panetta says the Department of Defense needs the ability to protect private-sector computers from cyberthreats.
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Sources suggest that people in the global equity derivatives department may have fed inflated estimates of future dividends into the computers.
The department also announced new lockup policies, including prohibiting reporters from using their own computers, pens and other equipment.
Any U.S. official or agency with the proper clearance, including the White House Situation Room, State Department, CIA, Pentagon and others could continuously call up that video on their computers.
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The newspaper said that for much of last October, the State Department sent couriers around the world with sensitive information on paper and limited access to the computers in question.
But Foley said Monday that the department has "no information that there actually was a hacker" who gained access to the two computers.
Matas says U.S. Department of Commerce figures for sales of electronic systems, a wider category that includes consumer electronics, computers and other electronic products, is slumping by about 4% for 2002.
At present Micron Technology (nyse: MU - news - people ) and other producers of dynamic random access memory chips for computers--one of the most competitive industries on the planet--are confronted with charges from the Justice Department that imply all three pricing offenses at once.
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