Border Security System Left Open

7x7 writes "Wired News is running an article on documents they recovered via the Freedom of Information Act and a lawsuit. From the article:" A computer failure that hobbled border-screening systems at airports across the country last August occurred after Homeland Security officials deliberately held back a security patch that would have protected the sensitive computers from a virus then sweeping the internet, according to documents obtained by Wired News." It looks like Zotob made it in to the supposedly protected network."

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Re:Let me get this straight

[sumdumass]

But hey, remember, this is from the administration that brought you Iraq's WMDs and the post-Katrina disaster recovery response. Poor decisions ? Bungling?

Well, when we look at it with all the facts, we see that some think the russians not only supplied iraq's WMDs but also help move them to siria and lebenon in the several months we pissed around at the UN. But the only people claiming that are the CIA and some Iraqi general who wrote a book about it.

As for post-Katrina disaster recovery response, it has been demonstrated time and time again that the majority of the problems there was due to ineficiencies of the local and state governments. other areas werre effected just as bad and didn't have half the problems as New Orleans did. It is because thier governments actualy followed the protocall and things work out better. Not that thousands of people losing thier homes and means of an income, all thier personal belongings and pets could ever be a "good" thing. It just wasn't a three ring circus like in other parts of the country.

I'm not writing this to change you opinion. I'm just concerned that it is a little disingenuous to place the blame on one person and ignore all the others responcible. It is like letting the murderers go and only going after the vult leader. Share the blame were it needs to be and you will see the real problems.