Comments on: Malware knocks Defense Department e-mail offline

An unknown attack causes the Defense Department to shut down over a thousand computers.

[Jesus#2]

what OS

I wonder what operating system they were using...

[ewelch]

Not likely...

Sun, or BSD or some other flavor of UNIX. If I remember correctly,
Homeland Security specifies Windows Server. But then we knew this
administration is very Windows-friendly and hostile to the
competition.

Go figure.

[p.u.m.a.]

"I don't do email" is a lie.

When the press was first informing the public about Robert Gates as a potential successor to Rumsfeld, one of the things that the White House touted of Gates was his interest in his students when he was President of Texas A&M. Many times over it was said that he would blog anonymously on the T A&M sports blog to get the students fired up. If you can blog buddy, you can e-mail.

[kakodes_too]

p.u.m.a. doesn't get it.

One of the indications of intelligence is the ability to recognize subtleties in language; e.g., subtle humor, double entendre, RIPOSTS ....