Homeland security for dummies

GWB is busy fending off assertions that he deliberately included a falsified claim about Iraq and nuclear weapons in the state of the nation. That's a calculated lie to the nation, one far more heinous than Clinton's "I did not have sex with that woman" claim, and far more worthy of impeachment. He can shovel the blame on all his advisors all he wants, but for just once Bush she take the pie square in the face and admit, "mia culpa".

In the mean time, the department of Homeland Security is awarding a huge contact to Microsoft. So don't they know anything about security? Did they really buy Microsoft's claims that Windows Server 2003 was invulnerable. They of all people should know these are as good as Oracle's still advertised claim that Oracle Server is "uncrackable" inspite of it being cracked the very day it was launched. So just to prove the point, for the clinically dumb, today's press release shows Windows Server 2003 has had its first critical security flaw which came close on the heals of four moderate security flaws which were only moderate because they weren't apparent in the default configuration. That's almost like saying a critical flaw in a cars engine isn't critical because the default car configuration as supplied by the dealer is with the engine off...

Commenting on the bug Microsoft could only say "we knew it was coming at some point". So, I'll tell you the day someone hijacks all the Microsoft PCs used by the Department of Homeland Security and turns them into a porn distribution system will be the day I post here "we knew it was coming at some point". I'll also tell you for free, right now, ahead of the time, that... Someone in the government should be running Microsoft through the grinder for equiping every US home and business with one, two, or many more PCs that run an OS that is demonstrably insecure, does not include easy to use security controls, and includes dozens of technologies that are known and unprotected vectors for thousands of known and unknown viruses, worms, trojans, and other malfeasant code that can hijack and disable an US computer in seconds.