In Federal e-Security We Trust? Not a Chance

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

This is kind of interesting, but far from surprising. ;-)

Via C|Net News.

[snip]

...a privacy think tank called the Ponemon Institute has issued its 2006 Privacy Trust Study of the United States 
Government. The report ranks public perception of the privacy protection practices of federal agencies, based on 
responses to various survey questions. More than 70 agencies were evaluated, and each was assigned a privacy trust 
score by factoring together positive and negative survey responses.

Let's turn to the bad news first. The least-trusted federal agencies, starting from the bottom, are: the Department of 
Homeland Security, the Transport Security Administration, the CIA, the Department of Justice, the Office of the 
Attorney General, the National Security Agency, the Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration, and the Federal Bureau of 
Prisons.

This is sobering, as these are not minor governmental outposts. We're instead talking about critical agencies, with 
vital missions, that handle very sensitive data.

[snip]

More:
http://news.com.com/2010-7348_3-6044353.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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