Report: Too Much Cyber Security at CIA

Report: Too Much Cyber Security at CIA
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-05-28

While other government agencies struggle with their cyber security practices, the Central Intelligence Agency apparently suffers from the opposite problem: too much security -- according to a recent study of the agency's use of information technology.

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Report: Too Much Cyber Security at CIA 2003-05-29
Anonymous (4 replies)

"Agency e-mail systems are clumsy, and the CIA's search engine is so "primitive" that analysts maintain informal networks of personal contacts within the agency just to track down the information they need to do their job."

Must be using Linux with Sendmail.

Linux = primitive and Sendmail = clumsy.

Windows 2003 Enterprise!

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