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US Missile Defense Staff Told To Stop Watching Porn

Posted by Soulskill on from the first-world-problems dept.

An anonymous reader writes "John James Jr., director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, who is responsible for the nation's missile defense system, recently sent out a one-page memo warning employees and contractors to stop using agency computers to visit pornographic Web sites. That's right; apparently they were watching the wrong type of bombshells."

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  1. Re:Why? by xlsior · · Score: 1, Troll

    Unlikely as it sounds, it's definitely possible... For example, a number of years ago a bug in the windows gdi rendering system could allow arbitrary code execution when viewing a malformed jpeg picture: http://tinyurl.com/c5z3rfy And later, an even easier exploit came along where a legacy printer macro file format (don't remember the extension) simply renamed to jpeg would allow the execution of a script when the 'image' was viewed in Internet explorer since both file formats were supported by the same windows decoder libraries.