Democratic Convention Computer Security Threat?

Hiawatha writes "Excuse me for tooting my own horn, but check out my story in today's Boston Globe about a possible security problem at the Democratic convention next week. If visitors plug insecure laptops with wireless connections into the convention's wired network, there could be trouble..."

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I can see the disaster now...

[stienman]

The vandals could obtain sensitive information related to the campaign of presidential candidate John Kerry.

Because you can never know too much about what a presidential candidate ate for breakfast.

Or they could unleash an attack that would bring down the network and throw the convention into chaos.

I thought all these political conventions consisted of was pure chaos? The political machine draws on entropy, if these things provide further chaos and uncertianty to the issues then I'd assume the campaigners would be in favor of it.

-Adam

Re:Aside

[gillbates]

Well, what I heard went something like this:

• If you're not a Democrat when you're young, it's because you have no heart.
• If you're not a Republican when you're older, it's because you have no brain.