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thewayneNo, we've never been hacked! Look at my shiny pen... *flash!* The Zotob worm DID NOT circulate throughout the US VISIT system, halting processing of people at passport check points.
This guy is an utter tool. How someone with a Masters in Plant Science can be in charge of computer security for DHS is unfathomable. I wonder how much money he contributed to various campaigns?
The second part of the article is great: "Keith A. Rhodes, the director of the Center for Technology and Engineering at the Government Accountability Office, seemed to be waiting for this one:
Security issues are pervasive. As matter of fact, I realize that there was an earlier statement that our audit was a year old, but actually our audit started a year ago. As matter of fact, we curtailed our assessment since we kept getting more and more findings. If we continued to this day, we would still be finding problems. The problems are pervasive and systemic."
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/breaches/index.html
This guy is an utter tool. How someone with a Masters in Plant Science can be in charge of computer security for DHS is unfathomable. I wonder how much money he contributed to various campaigns?
The second part of the article is great: "Keith A. Rhodes, the director of the Center for Technology and Engineering at the Government Accountability Office, seemed to be waiting for this one:
Security issues are pervasive. As matter of fact, I realize that there was an earlier statement that our audit was a year old, but actually our audit started a year ago. As matter of fact, we curtailed our assessment since we kept getting more and more findings. If we continued to this day, we would still be finding problems. The problems are pervasive and systemic."
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/breaches/index.html
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Date: 2007-06-24 05:57 am (UTC)Anyway, this guy's obviously got zero clue about what he's being asked bout except "deny, deny, deny." And this is the guy in charge of security. We should promote him to some other important office, one that he can screw up even worse. So, put him on the Republican ticket for the next election.