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Judge Disconnects Interior Dept., Again

Posted by timothy on from the just-like-texas-justice dept.

jeremycec writes "Evidently, nothing's been resolved since 2001, when this happened the first time. In these Memorandum Opinion and Preliminary Injunction documents from Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., we see how the court stepped in to pull the plug on a system, which, through its abject lack of due care, left someone's important financial information wide open to attackers. According to the former CIO of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: 'For all practical purposes, we have no security, we have no infrastructure, ... Our entire network has no firewalls on it. I don't like running a network that can be breached by a high school kid.' So, when the BIA could get no relief through Interior's IT Dept., it went to the courts. Source: Government Computer News "

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  1. This is why.. by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 3, Funny

    Our government is incapible of becoming like Orwell's 1984. They cant even keep their system straight.

    And also, what's a government office doing on the internet? Shouldnt there be a Web machine (dmz) and a firewall for interal access (if they need it)? That doesnt cost more than a 1000$.

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  2. Hey! by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should try one of those motherboards with fancy IDE encryption, that'll keep their data safe!

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    1. Re:Hey! by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 2, Funny
      Wow. From news post to cliche in 1 hour and 5 minutes. Faster even than on www.fark.com

      I'm impressed! :)

  3. "...We have no Infrastructure..." by thePancreas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well sounds like someone told someone a Buzzword. If there was NO infrastructure, there wouldn't be a problem. The problem is the infrastructure they DO have. BTW is the dept. of Indian affairs there to keep secret the horrors the Indian people had to suffer under the Imperialist conquerer's the early Americans were? Ooops just let the secret out, you can keep the firewall budget for the lawsuits.

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  4. Re:Good. by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 2, Funny

    If anything, it also reaffirms another commonly held beleif about our government:

    Anything the government does is done is incomplete or not done at all.

    It goes to show that somebody claimed to offer help there. They (govt) instead say "Lets wait for FEDERAL HELP. We cant waste money".

    Very sad.

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  5. Wow... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 4, Funny
    "For all practical purposes, we have no security, we have no infrastructure, . . . . Our entire network has no firewalls on it.

    So, what's your IP? WoOt!

    1. Re:Wow... by BrynM · · Score: 4, Funny

      127.0.0.1
      Have at it :)

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    2. Re:Wow... by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 1, Funny
      So, what's your IP? WoOt!

      127.0.0.1

      Come and get me!

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    3. Re:Wow... by BMonger · · Score: 5, Funny

      That was easy to crack! After about 20 minutes I finally figured out that they have not only the same username as I do but the same password! After that it was so easy it felt like ~...

    4. Re:Wow... by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 2, Funny
      That was too easy. Those morons have the worst security ever. I think I'll do a "mv * /dev/null"

      @53#$345%3#53!#$345%^345&362&#$% NO CARRIER

    5. Re:Wow... by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 2, Funny
      Man, this box is rancid, positively rancid.

      Whoever does security on it should be hung from a yardarm. Now, just to grab his attention, how about a little @#$#!eDFWERTQ#W$TQS!@#%!@#QEQW#%Q^H

      No Carrier

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  6. Try a secure OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should run on FreeLeonardPeltierBSD.

  7. incompetent government employee?... by zasos · · Score: 1, Funny

    It comes as a shock that our government employs unqualified personal in the IT department! The chief executive and his top aids are clearly the most qualified individuals for the job! Then why this trend does not propagate down to the trenches?....
    he-he

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  8. The Current Administration: Security Through ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Stop asking questions about that! What are you, a terrorist? I think you should be indefinitely detained."

    I feel safer. And the chocolate rations have been increased to 5 units.

  9. Freedom of Information Act by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    kinda has a new meaning here...

  10. I heard this on NPR -- One question by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard this on NPR (about 2 weeks ago, sheesh!) and all I could think was "I wonder how long until someone posts the google cache link."

    No, my sig isn't that link.

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  11. Can somebody explain to me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...what the hell this article is about?
    Bureau of Indian Affairs - are these the people responsible for outsourcing IT jobs to India?