Forwarded by: "Gresick, Allen [C] " <GresickAat_private> I don't think this guy knows how US Government systems work! I, too, work for a US Government agency as a contractor and the situations described by the anonymous DoD person are representative of monitoring of USG networks for waste, fraud, and abuse. Both of these occurrences could be discovered through the use of a firewall. All of our internal networks that touch the internet are protected by firewalls, which also monitor traffic coming in and out to ensure that it is for official USG use. They can even monitor down to the keystroke level, if they want to. I'm aware of this monitoring because my system tells me so when I log in: "This is a US Government system and is subject to monitoring. Use of system constitutes consent to be monitored. Unauthorized use may subject you to administrative, criminal, or other action." I understand why I'm monitored at work because it is not my personal workstation or network (even though my taxes paid for it). However, at home, I can assume some level of privacy because I can't believe that the US Government has enough resources to monitor ALL email EVERYWHERE! We have a hard time monitoring our users on an enterprise network, let alone millions of users sending billions of emails! I just think this Navy guy is all wet!!! Allen Gresick -----Original Message----- From: InfoSec News [mailto:isnat_private] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:47 AM To: isnat_private Subject: Re: [ISN] WWW.huh?: You Are the First Line of Defense Forwarded by: An anonymous DoD person... Hi, The fact that Government computers can track everything you do is *absolutely* no joke. I work for the United States Navy, and a friend of mine was sending email to an old flame using excite web-based email. Well, about twenty minutes later, his fiance comes in and throws the same email he wrote in his face. It was a big reminder to me that Uncle Sam watches and monitors *everything* - remotely too - even web based email services, etc. Another case that was similar - a supervisor was repremanded for sending encrypted email out of Navy computers. Guess he pissed off the IT's (whom they affectionatly call themselves the 'Gate Keepers'). Anyway, just some food for thought. - Anonymous ----- Original Message ----- From: William Knowles <wkat_private> To: InfoSec News <isnat_private> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:01 AM Subject: [ISN] WWW.huh?: You Are the First Line of Defense > http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2001/n06252001_200106252.html > > By Steve Hara > American Forces Press Service > > WASHINGTON, June 25, 2001 -- Defense Department computer security > systems and specialists foiled nearly 22,500 would-be intruders in > 1999 and 24,500 in 2000. There's no let-up in sight. > > Special agent Jim Christy said he and others on his law enforcement > staff are in a "growth business" chasing hackers and spies and running > other criminal activities to ground. As representatives of the Office > of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, > Communications and Intelligence, they also counsel DoD employees on > being an effective first line of defense instead of the weakest link. > > When he discusses computer security, Christy said, he drives home that > average folks aren't expected to mount an ironclad defense. Rather, he > stressed, they can do simple things that make life harder for bad guys > -- and stop doing simple things that make life easy for them. ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email isn-unsubscribeat_private
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