Auernheimer passed the addresses to a journalist claiming the hack was done to highlight security failings.

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Public disgruntlement over rising costs and the appeasement of sponsors, predictions of apocalyptic travel chaos, the deployment of rocket launchers on residential rooftops and security failings which even the head of G4S, the company responsible, agreed had been a "humiliating shambles, " had preceded the Games.

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In the last Parliament, the inquiry by the Social Security Committee into the failings of the Child Support Agency forced reform.

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We were a little wary at the first when we heard about tying RFID so closely to our monies, and that Chase Bank blink card of ours has been collecting dust ever since it showed up in the mail, but the latest failings of RFID "security" have us running for the hills -- tin foil hat in tow.

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"It's just another example of the failings of the federal bureaucracy, " said Landrieu, who wrote Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff last week to request an explanation.

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And whatever its failings, most of NATO's members still see it as the cornerstone of their security and the irreplaceable bond that joins America to Europe.

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