http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/backchannel_chatter_dhs_badges.html By Jeff Stein Spy Talk The Washington Post September 29, 2010 More than seven years after 22 agencies were squished together to create the Department of Homeland Security, togetherness remains a dream. Take security badges. Early last year a study showed that most agencies had just begun to implement Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, which required government agencies to adopt standardized ID cards. The deadline was Oct. 27, 2009. It’s still a mish-mash almost a year later, a number of DHS headquarters employees have been telling SpyTalk in recent months. Despite officials' constant incantation of "One DHS," personnel frequently find themselves tapping their feet at the entrances of such department components as TSA, ICE, Customs and Border Patrol, the Coast Guard and Secret Service as security guards check and re-check their IDs against their individual databases. Like the late Rodney Dangerfield, DHS badges don't get no respect -- or not enough, anyway. “Theoretically, it’s one big system,” a headquarters employee said Wednesday with a rueful chuckle, “but just theoretically.” [...] _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Thu Sep 30 2010 - 00:04:34 PDT
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