U.S. IT Infrastructure Highly Vulnerable

An anonymous reader writes "The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee in their February 2005 report to GW writes "...infrastructure of the United States, which is now vital for communication, commerce, and control of our physical infrastructure, is highly vulnerable to terrorist and criminal attacks." It goes on to say that "fundamentally new approaches are needed to address the more serious structural weaknesses of the IT infrastructure" and finally offers "four key findings and recommendations on how the Federal government can foster new architectures and technologies to secure the Nation's IT infrastructure." Here is yet another, not surprising, bleak outlook for cyber security in the United States. The full 72-page report can be found here."

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Slashdot 1, .gov 0

[squidgyhead]

Unfortunately, we have already managed to obliterate the server on which the document is hosted, so now no one will be able to read it, and won't know how to stop this from happening in the first place.

Is slashdotting a .gov site an act of terrorism?

Re:You bet. /.ed already.

[TLouden]

or maybe the terrorist took it down to keep there secret protected...

Perfect /. quote

[TLouden]

if found this /. quite (from the bottom of the page) to be perfect:
"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred."
considering that the server was /.ed AND is supposed to be talking about a failure of communication. Anybody else like it?