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Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report
From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks () hicks-net net>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:31:45 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:07:58 -0400 From: "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com> To: <funsec () linuxbox org> Subject: [funsec] U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on
to Drudge Report
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22574.html "Asked why the conservative-leaning news aggregator and President Barack Obama critic was flagged by Internet security officials, Tracy Schmaler, a Department of Justice <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22508.html> spokeswoman, said it was because "a malicious code was found contained in a Web ad on Drudge."" How come only the DOJ knows about this and nobody else?
Because the DoJ needed some excuse to tell the workerbees... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer | Direct: 408.569.7928 People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf -- George Orwell The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Gregory Hicks (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Dan Kaminsky (May 15)
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- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Dan Kaminsky (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Larry Seltzer (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Dan Kaminsky (May 15)
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- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log onto Drudge Report Tomas L. Byrnes (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Larry Seltzer (May 15)
- Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report Dan Kaminsky (May 15)