[BC] Internet attacks

[Dana Puopolo]

The short answer: major idiots!

Most IT people wear blinders and are downright dumb! BUT they have degrees!

What do they say?

Those who know---DO!
Those who don't know---TEACH!
Those who REALLY don't know---LEARN from the teachers above!

There you go making sense again, Richard-this HAS to stop!

-D

From: RichardBJohnson at comcast.net

As reported this morning by the Associated Press;
"WASHINGTON — The powerful attack that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and
South Korean government agencies for days was even broader than initially
realized, also targeting the White House, the Pentagon and the New York Stock
Exchange.

Other targets of the attack included the National Security Agency, Homeland
Security Department, State Department, the Nasdaq stock market and The
Washington Post. According to an early analysis of the malicious software used
in the attacks, many of the organizations appeared to successfully blunt the
sustained computer assaults."

My question; what kind of idiots run these Government sites? It is trivial to
thwart an external attack!