I'm so glad that our gov't takes security so seriously

[thewayne]

Once again, Department of Homeland Security gets another F in computer security. Incidently, that's the same grade for the third straight year. The government overall is maintaining a D+, sort of like the GPA of a certain Commander in Chief. :-)

I love the irony in the fact that they are passing all these laws on cybercrime, some were proposed that make the entity upon whom the crime was perpetrated liable for not adequately defending themselves, and they get such horrible scores.

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[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I'm not all that surprised. Given the governmental tendency to focus on paperwork over actual process, those results come as no shock. It also means that if there's a really smart and computer-savvy terrorist group out there, they'd have pretty open access to a LOT of realyl sensitive materials and information....provided by the agency that's supposed to be securing the country.

Y'know, if Bush is really as born-again Christian as he's put forth....and these ideas were the result of Divine Inspiration.....I can't help think it does prove God's got a sense of humor. ;}

[cardigirl.livejournal.com]

Ironic, isn't it? Scary and disgusting but ironic.

The library computer system forces us to change email passwords every 65 days, which is frankly burdensome. I complained about it once (our emails are public record after all) and was told that it's the City standard -- and that sensitive systems (which the library isn't) force changes every *35* days. That being said: there are parts of the computer system that change passwords *ahem* rather less often -- we're supposed to, but since the system doesn't *force* it, pretty much no one does.

But we're just a City agency, and a library at that. I wish I could expect better of the folks who're supposed to be watching out for us.

[cteare.livejournal.com]

I like your icon.

[silveradept]

Bah. No surprises here.