-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:02, InfoSec News wrote: > http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0322/web-dhs-03-23-04.asp > > By Florence Olsen > March 23, 2004 > <snipped> > The 22-page letter criticized DHS officials' performance and asked 57 > questions covering areas such as what DHS is doing about reducing > software vulnerabilities, and plans for continuity and contingency > planning. </snipped> Since when is the government in the business of righting software? How do they reduce software vulnerabilities? I don't understand how DHS can deal with these issues. The most they can do is increase the standards, and institute a reliable mechanism of enforcing the standards. There certainly have been more security auditing and expectations in a post 9/11 government. I don't know what it has bought us, but the government is more acutely aware of the issues. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYeVD5m+UfoWV2WURAue1AJ0cczSA2xCwSqqP9JmrT/a1SeTFMgCfarfW H4akFDq18Dox9+9XX+mxVSU= =lNqG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ isn mailing list isn@private http://www.attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/isn
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