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Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help

Posted by samzenpus on from the close-your-spy-network dept.

coondoggie writes "The Russian ring charged this week with spying on the United States faced some of the common security problems that plague many companies — misconfigured wireless networks, users writing passwords on slips of paper, and laptop help desk issues that take months to resolve."

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  1. Re:Well this just proves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That seal is hanging at the NSA museum. If you go there, you can open it up and see the microphone. Pretty neat.

    http://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/museum/virtual_tour/museum_tour_text.shtml

    look for "great seal"