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U.S. Agencies Earn "D" For Computer Security

Posted by timothy on from the not-for-delicious dept.

Fighting.Cephalopod writes "For the fourth year in a row, most federal agencies have received low grades for failing to protect their computer networks from hackers and other cyberterrorists, according to a computer security report card issued today by the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology." Other readers point out coverage of the report at ZDnet, Reuters (via Forbes), The Washington Post, and ComputerWorld." As mr. don't points out, the agencies receiving an actual failing grade are "the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as the departments of Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and State."

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  1. Re:Ahahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can i borrow one mod-point to anyone? I need to give a troll status to this one. I promise I will return the point at some point. Thanks

  2. Why Picard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why so many votes for Patrick Stewart? Is I because everyone here is still scared of girls so they pick some bald looser as their hero. Face it, Kirk was the better captain and wasn't scared to have sex either. Remember kiddies, sex is not masterbating to a 7of9 poaster.

    Remeber real men with something between their legs will follow Kirk to the end. Fags follow Picard, or that dike Janeway.

  3. Re:How did by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh yeah, you have LOTS of room to talk about "bureaucracy," you dumb fucking brit. Tell me, how's the monarchy working out? I'm glad your damn "Princess" Di got her guts splattered all over the streets of London.

  4. Re:hah by heironymouscoward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If a woman aborts her first pregnancy, she has a 1 in 9 risk of breast cancer, elevated from 1 in 50.

    This proves only a relationship, not a cause and effect. Women having children (including full term and lactation) have a lower breast cancer risk. Women aborting their first pregnancy have children later, possibly never.

    A valid study would compare age at first prenancy/lactation with breast cancer. I suspect there are other factors that appear to link even more strongly with breast cancer than abortion:

    - career (since working women have children later)
    - fertility (since fertile women have children earlier)
    - look&feel (since ugly women have children earlier)
    - education (since women with more education have children later).

    So, you should be against educating women, allowing them to work, allowing them to protect themselves against STDs that can lower their fertility,...

    Come to think of it, you probably are.

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