Re: Border Security System Left Open

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

They do not, in most cases.

$.02,

- ferg

-- Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:

Fergie wrote:

> A computer failure that hobbled border-screening systems at airports
> across the country last August occurred after Homeland Security officials
> deliberately held back a security patch that would have protected the
> sensitive computers from a virus then sweeping the internet, according to
> documents obtained by Wired News.

One has to question whether the folk running these systems even have 
the _minimal_ competence for doing their job.

[snip]

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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