Judge Orders Review of US-VISIT Virus Papers

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

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


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"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/


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