It isn’t just the FBI; Homeland Security recieved dud ratings for the year, the story was carried here at p2p.net.

There’s another story where several years ago, a “kiddy” hacker got in by simply using common passwords. That story is carried here also. The individual has been sought through expedition proceedings from the UK; if I remember correctly, the ok has been given to allow it. The story smacks more of retaliation against anyone that would try to get in, not for hacking into the database but rather because someone could use a bit of commonsense to obtain access without messing with any sort of other security devices. In otherwords, because of lax policies by the agency itself, is the reason it could be done. Following typical cost estimates, there is an outrageous claim of the amount of money taken to fix the problem. The trouble with this claim is it is due to shoddy security and not because it was a brute force attack. It would have had to have been done anyway at some point. They are lucky it wasn’t malicious.

The government continues to show why it shouldn’t have most of the data it is seeking in the way it is getting it. Simply the data isn’t safe in their hands. Having your personal data, without court oversight, is exposure to possibly having your identity stolen with them providing the data source. This is not a pretty picture when the government can’t justify the obtaining of all this data and wants to cover it up and hide behind state secrets clauses. Somethings rotten in the government and it stinks to high heaven.

On the other hand this is funnier than hell!!!!! Just think about it: The very ‘Gov’ who CLAIMS to be soooooo concerned about “National Security” CAN and HAS been hacked!

This reminds me of that movie War Games where this young teen manages to accidentally get into the ‘gov’ database and proceeds to play what he THINKS are games but almost creates WW III. Now THIS scenerio is NOT so funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!