[wplug] OT: whoa

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:

> "The Pentagon last month acknowledged at a closed House Intelligence
> committee meeting that its vast computer network is scanned or
> attacked by outsiders more than 300 million times each day."
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_go_co/china_hacking
>
> Must be fun working in their IT Security dept. eh? :-)
>
> I wonder what % of their machines are running MS Windows?


Listening to NPR (I think?) talking about that stuff yesterday, I was told
that each Representative has their own separate IT staff, so there are no
overarching regulations in place for the entire House's security.  That's
horrible.

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