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Govt. Report Slams FBI's Internal Network Security
An anonymous reader writes "The Government Accountability Office, the federal government's watchdog agency, Thursday released a report critical of the FBI's internal network, asserting it lacks security controls adequate to thwart an insider attack. Among its other findings, the GAO said the FBI did not adequately "identify and authenticate users to prevent unauthorized access." The GAO report also criticized FBI network security in other regards, saying that there was a lack of encryption to protect sensitive data and patch management wasn't being done in a timely manner."
And these guys are getting full access to our credit card data, credit histories, purchase histories and flight data. -- I don't think EU realizes what kind of security risks they are subjecting their own (more affluent) citizens by giving USA full access to all this data when clearly they don't give proper consideration to it's security. There is ample opportunity for spying and illicit uses, and where there is opportunity, there is also traditionally abuse.
Americans need to give EU data on their own citizens in return. This one sided "pulling of our pants down" is not OK.