I would have to strongly agree with both comments. The US Government's networks are insecure and vulnerable because of the people whom they put in the position of safeguarding the networks. The machines are not vulnerable it's the stupid Systems Administrators and oh I love this one the... and let me quote it for you... "Network Engineers" that are vulnerable because they don't care enough to research their own networks and the data which resides on those machines.. last time i checked you didnt have to be 1337 to password protect pdf documents or download the latest build of GnuPG and encrypt documents... Its not that difficult to develop a secure server that requires one to authenticate their machine and pass through an encrypted vpn tunnel to access some data... And what about the National Security Agency... Why haven't they developed the means to secure this data... And why are reporters finding this information before they do? Don't they have teams of analysts who search for these weaknesses? Once again it's poor administration and a bunch of "IT Techs" who don't have the first clue about security.

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