Re: DoD Report to Detail Dangers of Foreign Software

["Dennis Henderson" <hendomatic () gmail com>]

On 11/27/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
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> This sounds kind of hostile -- while I'm sure there is some small
> threat, I'm not so sure about the paranoid nature or insistence of
> this "report"...
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> Vis ComputerWorld.
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> [snip]
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> A U.S. Department of Defense task force early next year plans to warn the
> Pentagon of a growing threat to national security from adversaries who
> could insert malicious code in software developed overseas.
>
> The Defense Science Board, a military/civilian think tank within the DOD,
> will issue a report that calls for a variety of prevention and detection
> measures but stops short of recommending that all software procured by the
> military be written in the U.S., said the head of the task force that has
> been studying the so-called foreign influence issue.



Its happened before..

Certainly it could happen again. Probably already has..

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