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Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability

Posted by timothy on from the only-need-half-as-many dept.

PCM2 writes "ABC News is reporting that the US Secret Service is in dire need of server upgrades. 'Currently, 42 mission-oriented applications run on a 1980s IBM mainframe with a 68 percent performance reliability rating,' says one leaked memo. That finding was the result of an NSA study commissioned by the Secret Service to evaluate the severity of their computer problems. Curiously, upgrades to the Service's computers are being championed by Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who says he's had 'concern for a while' about the issue."

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  1. Re:don't trust it, it's about pork by cosm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If this is this case, the good senator shall hereon be known as Joe Libermanbearpig, in honor of the late ManBearPig of Al Gore mythology.

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    'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
  2. Re:don't trust it, it's about pork by Michael+Kristopeit · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    did you not being a US citizen influence your decision to bring my morals into question?

    UNDERbid. ZERO is under ANY bid. do it for free. is that moral? do they do things for free to help the common good in your country?

    what if the voting system itself is just as failed as the institution that implemented it?

    lucky for us US citizens that you are safely on some other soil.