Shades of Dr Strangelove
You can't wank in here. This is the War Room.
Pentagon top brass have ordered missile defence boffins to stop using government computers to surf for porn. An official memo, dispatched by Executive Director John James Jr, reprimanded employees and contractors over "inappropriate use of the MDA [Missile Defense Agency] network" over recent months. "Specifically, there have …
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<QUOTE>Since Obama cancelled half the Space program these guys have just got more time on their hands</QUOTE>
Isn't the space program NASA? We're talking about missiles here which is a completely different agency. And the NASA cuts go back well before the Obama administration.
............when we read about the latest mallware outbreak etc. I am not going to say a word about the "great unwashed" and their utter refusal to learn basic "pc safety". When employees in a major military organisation, who are themselves (allegedly) highly educated and trained to be security aware are logging onto the biggest source of malicious exploits in known space then there is no bloody hope left at all. "I am on an important military network and I feel like some porn, what can possibly go wrong?"
SS-20 is a mobile missile. Minuteman is a silo-based missile. Thus not surprised to find:
SS-20:
Specifications
Weight 37,100 kg (82,000 lb)
Length 16.5 m (54 ft)
Diameter 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Minuteman III:
Specifications
Weight 78,000 lb (35,300 kg)
Length 59 ft 9.5 in (18.2 m)
Diameter 5 ft 6 in (1.7 m) (1st stage)
Thus, the SS-20 is a little thicker, but ours is five feet longer.
Vid starts with truck towing launcher.
Missile raises slowly from horizontal to vertical.
Some fiddling about and it rears up in to the sky for a short time before discharging its payload to the cheers of a bunch of blokes watching on.
They then go off for a 'comfort break'.
Ah, it's all porn anyway.
I doubt that the Missile Defense Agency is using Windows -- let alone non-airgapped machines -- for any mission-critical development or sensitive data. AFAIK, researchers at MDA are using a mix of Linux and older UNIX workstations, so the "few people downloading material from some websites" were probably support personnel, like purchasing or parking management.
Anon because I know where the usenet a.b.e archives are located on the MDA servers :-)
Which would we rather have them doing? Watching pr*n, or playing missile command (and, then, forgetting which is the gaming computer, and which is the launch control computer)? Seems a lot safer to have them watching pr*n.
Plus, what else are all of those guys (and gals!) going to do while they're locked in those underground bunkers for all that time?
Dave
Looking at our logs, malware is mostly from compromised WordPress sites and third-rank online merchants. Compromise victims. Like phishing sites, the porn-merchants don't want people blocked from their sites by their AV, so they keep them 'clean.'
But my data are incomplete. So it's a genuine question.
Employer (IT security company) did some research recently and it seems that (as a proportion of the whole) not only are blogs more likely than grot stops to carry malware but sites carrying information about religeous matters are also more likely to deliver unto you a nasty dose of something infectious...
I would love to see a US gov memo reminding people not to visit religious websites :)
BTW - I am SURE that TFSM is not included...