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Border Security System Left Open
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:30:56 GMT
Via Wired News. [snip] A computer failure that hobbled border-screening systems at airports across the country last August occurred after Homeland Security officials deliberately held back a security patch that would have protected the sensitive computers from a virus then sweeping the internet, according to documents obtained by Wired News. The documents raise new questions about the $400 million US-VISIT program, a 2-year-old system aimed at securing the border from terrorists by gathering biometric information from visiting foreign nationals and comparing it against government watch lists. The Aug. 18 computer failure led to long lines at international airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and elsewhere, while U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, officials processed foreign visitors by hand, or in some cases used backup computers, according to contemporaneous press reports. [snip] More: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70642-0.html Background, from 19 August 2005: 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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- Re: Border Security System Left Open Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 14)
- Re: Border Security System Left Open Nick FitzGerald (Apr 13)