Re: U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

To be fair, this has been a real problem.



On May 15, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Gregory Hicks <ghicks () hicks-net net> wrote:

> > 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...
>
>
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