Taken from here.Politicians charged on Tuesday that peer-to-peer networks can pose a "national security threat" because they enable federal employees to share sensitive or classified documents accidentally from their computers.
Now this is fucking funny.
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Now this is fucking funny.
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HM-PuFFNSTuFF
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the apostrophe?andyman wrote:It gives someone outside the DoD network a connection to a DoD computer, so yes they can accidentally share somewhat classified documents. Although they shouldn't be on those computers in the first place... and anyone caught would be put in jail for a long long time..
so whats funny, i missed it.
Congress is filled with such ill-informed twats that they'll pass any law with the words: security, threat, terrorism, religion, children, weapons of mass distruction, video games, violence, nudity, war, internet, classified information, and here's-a-briefcase-full-of-money.
If they were worried about security, they should ban paper as well. Since someone can take a piece of paper with classified information on it, fold it into a paper airplane and throw it out the window.
If they were worried about security, they should ban paper as well. Since someone can take a piece of paper with classified information on it, fold it into a paper airplane and throw it out the window.
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they should all be running citrix clients with information stored on a central server with no rights or storage locally.. IMO..
Shit companies have better security then the f'ing government
Shit companies have better security then the f'ing government
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um, yes, exactly. what the jiminy fuck would someone at the pentagon be doing with eMule on their machine anywaybitWISE wrote:Sounds like the DoD has a shitty security policy. They shouldn't allow people to install applications in the first place...
also, this line of *cough* reasoning doesn't really apply to torrents. i don't think you can accidentally create a torrent, though you can accidentally (i.e. by being an olympic retard) share your entire C drive via eDonkey
also, this strikes me as just another thinly-veiled attack of file-sharing per se
jesus, how do you americans put up with these idiots? they should just walk around with corporate logos on their suits - "this senator was brought to you by raytheon, makers of fine ways to kill america's enemies since 1922" - at least it would be honest
jesus, how do you americans put up with these idiots? they should just walk around with corporate logos on their suits - "this senator was brought to you by raytheon, makers of fine ways to kill america's enemies since 1922" - at least it would be honest
WOOT!seremtan wrote:also, this strikes me as just another thinly-veiled attack of file-sharing per se
jesus, how do you americans put up with these idiots? they should just walk around with corporate logos on their suits - "this senator was brought to you by raytheon, makers of fine ways to kill america's enemies since 1922" - at least it would be honest
Uh, well....good luck with that. :shrug:
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They don't, you have to be an admin to have rights to install programs that have anything to do with the registry usually. It's no different than any other corporation policy.bitWISE wrote:Sounds like the DoD has a shitty security policy. They shouldn't allow people to install applications in the first place...