NAB verdict: aftermath
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by TheBlackAdder
Patti's most recent article: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/nba-gold-theft-the-verdict-990132/1/20
outlines the results and verdict of the NAB gold theft and investigation.
Although not conclusive, the evidence points to Son of Rambo, the Minister of Finance at the time.
This leads to many repurcussions, like who can be trusted with the governments (Australia's!) money.
SoR appeared to be a very trustworthy and possitive person in Aus but it now appears to be the exact opposite.
And of course, after a brief admin investigation they have decided to take no action whatsoever and have deemed it as "being careless with passwords"
How do we ensure this doesnt happen again? The only solution I can think of is in game contracts for anyone who has access to a sizeable amount of govt. money. Although they will be hard to set up in a way which does not limit ministers ability to do their job and make decisions.
I call for a solution to this problem. At the present time, a gold theft could happen again, with no repurcussions just like before! I'm not saying our ministers cant be trusted, but we need to protect Australia from this potential threat, and if that is by all ministers signing in game contracts, so be it.
If you agree that something needs to be done to protect our treasury, vote this article!
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I agree, we should protect treasury!
*nods in approval* Sure. Don't they do that already?
What can be done though?
Well I am the current Minister of Economy(Finance) and I am the current Minister who has access to the National Bank of Australia. Although I would not mind signing contracts, a contract may be useless.. If we reread and interpret the admin's reply to patti11,
"This decision has been taken as a result of the fact that
the chain of events that lead to the loss of access to the organization was a result of not keeping your password private...
We remind you the following excerpt from the eRepublik Terms of Service:
To keep your password safe, please do not disclose it to any other person. You are the sole responsible for the activities of all persons who use your password to gain access to your account. "
This clearly shows even if a contract is made with the minister, the admin can not intervene as we have breached a term of service as stated above by supplying the password to a "third party" which has a very ambiguous meaning.
Maybe only the PM should have the password?
I know it restricts the government's ability to operate somewhat, but for security, we may have to make that sacrifice?
Then ALL Minister of Finance duties which includes daily book-keeping, recording and very frequent updates of the Monetary Market must be done though the Prime Minister. MoF duties are very repetitive and necessary which requires dedication. The budget and etc will be written by the PM as well which will be very costly and stressful. The PM will have to do all donations to various orgs. I have not seen a country without a MoF.
IT is a particularly tough issue and one that will need quite a lot of thought
I doubt evidence on non erep sites would hold either, but a contract along the lines of "The conditions of taking upon the resposibility of this org and recieving the password include: any transfer of funds not approved of by the senate will be reimbursed by the player who transfered it"
Surely with some thought we can figure out something?
Vorodor, http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/124890/sharing-organization-access/1" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/[..]ss/1
The basically state here that with contracts they would be able to intervene.
OC, those are assuming and stops the organisation from being stolen or having the password changed when shared across various citizens. And to TBA, it will be hard to have something along the lines of those conditions as:
1.Senate approval happens out of eRepublik where admins may not acknowledge.
2. Some spending are done without Senate approval. Example of this is in Executive Orders.
3. Some donations must be done immediately and this simply add more red tape which will restrict the duties of a MoF.
4. Money will most likely be transferred out of the Monetary market. This will be hard to monitor as the exchange rate may change(although it never has during my term) and the admins will see the transactions as "private".
Again, I am happy to sign a contract. I am just pointing out the loopholes within the contract if it is made.
no problem, we do need to work out loopholes so we can try to find a way of doing this