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Border Security System Left Open

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-a-need-to-patch-basis dept.

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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  1. To protect their jobs.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    the Homeland Security folks did this so that the ignorant public will beleive that there's a threat. HS will then go to the clueless politicians and say we need more money - to spend in YOUR district. Policticans get the money, the constituancy thinks their politican is doing them good, and the HS folks have a bigger budget and over-paid job security.

    Federal Gov. at its finest.

    Me, paranoid? Not way.

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  3. YoU FAIL it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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