Danny Goodman tells me that the following items showed up, one right after the other, in his RSS newsreader yesterday:
Microsoft Awarded Homeland Security Contract. “The five-year contract, which the new department announced Tuesday, establishes Microsoft as the primary technology provider to DHS and consolidates existing Microsoft contracts at the federal agencies that were incorporated into the new department.”
Microsoft warns of critical Windows flaw. “The software giant issued a patch Wednesday morning to plug a critical security hole that could allow an attacker to take control of computers running any version of Windows except for Windows ME.”
Danny calls it a “one-two mind boggle” — he’s being kind.
Comments
Posted by: Lee Riemenschneider on July 17, 2003 12:33 PM
After reading the story in the Washington Post about the Republican Attorney Generals’ questionable fund raising. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3050-2003Jul16.html?nav=hptop_tb
It’s not hard to imagine that Microsoft bought the contract with the DHS, not to mention the DOJ antitrust settlement.
Where’s the next Frank Zappa, so we can have a “When the Lie’s So Big” part 2?
Posted by: Jim Hillhouse on July 17, 2003 11:05 PM
This must be manna from heaven for Al Queda. Microsoft servers powering the Dept. of Homeland Security have security breaches large enough to drive an aircraft carrier through.
Or, possibly this is a sting operation. That’s right. The DHS is actually laying a trap to find Al Queda hackers. Once found, a Preditor drone will drop a Maverick missile on them.
It couldn’t be that the DHS is foolish enough to have the world’s least secure operating system running DHS servers because they think MS makes the best server product? Could it?
I wonder what type of quid-pro-quo deal is going on here.
Posted by: John Byrne on July 18, 2003 04:44 PM
More evidence of the incredible ignorance of the current administration.
What a shame….
JB
Posted by: Lee Riemenschneider on July 17, 2003 12:33 PM
After reading the story in the Washington Post about the Republican Attorney Generals’ questionable fund raising. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3050-2003Jul16.html?nav=hptop_tb
It’s not hard to imagine that Microsoft bought the contract with the DHS, not to mention the DOJ antitrust settlement.
Where’s the next Frank Zappa, so we can have a “When the Lie’s So Big” part 2?