techdirt: Security Through Begging

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Those whacky Japanese!

Stupid, yet humorous. :-)

Via techdirt.com.

[snip]

Last summer, the surprising news came out that Japanese nuclear secrets leaked out, after a contractor was allowed to 
connect his personal virus-infested computer to the network at a nuclear power plant. The contractor had a file sharing 
app on his laptop as well, and suddenly nuclear secrets were available to plenty of kids just trying to download the 
latest hit single.

It's only taken about nine months for the government to come up with its suggestion on how to prevent future leaks of 
this nature: begging all Japanese citizens not to use file sharing systems -- so that the next time this happens, there 
won't be anyone on the network to download such documents. Beyond the fact that this is unlikely to have any effect (at 
all) on file sharing in Japan, it has nothing to do with the actual security breach.

[snip]

More:
http://techdirt.com/articles/20060316/0052241.shtml

- ferg


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 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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