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Subject: Re: breakin' to log
From: Paul Joslin (Sverdrup) <pjoslin @ mbvlab . wpafb . af . mil>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 94 07:37:17 -0400
To: jeromie @ mmp . com
Cc: kelly @ mmp . com, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9408172251 . AA11554 @ megabyt> (jeromie @ mmp . com)
Reply-to: pjoslin @ mbvlab . wpafb . af . mil

>>>>> "jeromie" == jeromie  <jeromie @
 mmp .
 com> writes:

    >> From firewalls-owner @
 GreatCircle .
 COM Wed Jul 27 23:31:44 1994
    >> From: Christopher Klaus <cklaus @
 shadow .
 net> Subject: Re: NCSC
    >> ratings To: morgan @
 engr .
 uky .
 edu (Wes Morgan) Date: Wed, 27 Jul
    >> 94 12:30:58 EDT Cc: firewalls @
 GreatCircle .
 COM X-Mailer: ELM
    >> [version 2.3 PL0] Sender: Firewalls-Owner @
 GreatCircle .
 COM
    >> Content-Length: 1523
    >> PENTAGON UNABLE TO CATCH INTERNET HACKERS
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Washington -
    >> 
    >> For seven months the Pentagon has been unable to locate hackers
    >> tapping into its unclassified computer system, officials said
    >> Thursday.
    >> 
    >> Defense Department officials have known since December that
    >> intruders in the United States and abroad have gained access to
    >> Pentagon computer files through the Internet and, in some
    >> cases, stolen, altered and erased records.  But despite a
    >> security budget in the "hundreds of millions of dollars," the
    >> Pentagon has been unable to close the breach.
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> --- With hundreds of millions of dollars, you think they could
    >> install a firewall?
    >> 
    >> Chris


No idea is too stupid for a bureaucrat to suggest if it will expand
his empire.   There is serious consideration being giving to
installing "a" (i.e. one) firewall for all DOD unclassified traffic,
including one email gateway. It would probably be cheaper to buy
uunet/alternet. 


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