>There are plenty of Senators and Representatives who are computer >literate, a few of whom are more than novices, or at least members of >their staff are.
----------- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security is holding hearings on spyware attacks on government agencies. Apparently, the State Dept. was attacked in June 2006 by Chinese hackers who stole passwords and planted backdoor programs. Ans the Commerce Dept's Bureau of Industry and Security was hacked a month later. "Members will understand that the penetrations on our systems were bad so bad that we don't even know whether we or the attackers now control our own systems," the briefing materials noted. ----------- I'm seeing good questions getting asked and a growing impatience with leaving this to IT management who seem too willing to make apologies for the defective software their computers run. It will be interesting to see what happens when a frustrated Congress tries to light a fire under these IT idiots. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
