Edupage, December 22, 2006

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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2006
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  MSU Suffers Data Mishap
  NASA and Google Sign Space Agreement Act
  Laptop Revenue to Surpass Desktops in 2007
  Recording Companies Sue Russian Site in U.S. Court

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MSU SUFFERS DATA MISHAP
Officials from Mississippi State University (MSU) have notified
approximately 2,400 students and employees that their confidential
information was mistakenly made available on a public Web site. In a
statement, Doc Foglesong, president of MSU, said, "When we learned that
the site actually was publicly accessible, we took the server offline