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Judge Orders Review of US-VISIT Virus Papers
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 00:08:04 GMT
Interesting turn of events. Kevin Poulsen over on 27B Stroke 6: [snip] I was in federal court this morning, where Judge Susan Illston gave Wired News a partial victory in our ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation against the DHS's bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Faithful readers will recall that we're suing CBP for refusing to respond to our FOIA request for information on an August computer failure that crippled the US-VISIT system -- a nationwide network of Windows-based PCs used to perform national security screening on incoming visitors to the US. DHS has offered the public two conflicting explanations for the failure: first, that it was the result of a computer virus infiltrating a single server in Virginia; second, that it was a random computer glitch with no security implications. [snip] More: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1489286 Background: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2005/08/international-travelers-at-airports.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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