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Comments on: Report: Problems stymie U.S. cyberspy protection

Technical and privacy issues are plaguing the U.S. government's work on the overarching system to protect federal computer networks from cyberspies, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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by rmva July 5, 2009 7:45 AM PDT
Don't worry. Be happy. No one is interested in attacking the US government's computers. After all, the Cold War is over.
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by gertruded July 5, 2009 8:28 AM PDT
Since they already have our jobs, what secrets could they be after? They won.
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by n3td3v July 6, 2009 6:23 AM PDT
Rogue employees working in the government for espionage, possibly terrorism. The inside job is still the number one threat to security. Never trust your employees...
by Lerianis3 July 5, 2009 5:31 PM PDT
The fact is that NO ONE will be able to totally prevent intrusions into computer systems. The best thing that can be done is to have VERY LIMITED PERMISSIONS on some things (if not putting them on totally non-net connected computers) in order to do some proactive security.
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