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Re: Reliance on Microsoft called risk to U.S. security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Thu Oct 2 16:04:59 2003
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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:53:12 -0700
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From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
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The US General Accounting Office today issued "Critical
Infrastructure Protection: Challenges in Securing Control
Systems," testimony before Congress yesterday, which
discusses widespread infratructure vulnerabilities caused
by increasing use of Microsoft OS, "Unix-like" systems
and Internet protocols in process control. It describes
as well readily available information about control systems
and why industry footdragging could impact national
security:
http://cryptome.org/gao-04-140t.htm
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