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800 Break-ins at Dept. of Homeland Security
WrongSizeGlass writes "Yahoo is reporting about the computer security nightmare going on at the Department of Homeland Security. Senior DHS officials admitted to Congress that over a two year period there were 800 hacker break-ins, virus outbreaks and in one instance, hacker tools for stealing passwords and other files were found on two internal Homeland Security computer systems. I guess it's true what they say ... a mechanic's car is always the last to get fixed."
Not to quibble, but ... when DHS was being organized, a number of IT security experts went public to try to
avert an IT security nightmare. They were rebuffed, and the DHS went ahead and spent over $6 Billion on
Microsoft OSes and Apps. I cannot say how much more $$$ that DHS has spent with Microsoft since then.
AFAI can tell, DHS is THE Imperial Oxymoron. Their idea of border security is getting people to volunteer
all their pertinent info, and volunteer to respect that invisible line in the SW USA desert. Their idea of seaport
security is to let someone else, like the foreign shipper, provide the security. The "war on terror" is going just
about as well as the "war on drugs", the "war in Afghanistan", and the "war in Iraq". And with all the noises the
Bush administration's aggprop (propaganda from the "Ministry of Truth"), we are getting ready to start yet
another war in the Middle East, in Iran.