To be fair, this has been a real problem.


On May 15, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Gregory Hicks <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:07:58 -0400
>> From: "Larry Seltzer" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> 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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