US Government IT Security 'Outstandingly Mediocre'

mrneutron2004 writes wrote with a link to an article on The Register, discussing an annual IT security report card handed out to the federal government. The results this year were mixed. The good news is that they graded higher than last year. The bad news? They still just rate a C-". Individual departments did better than others, but overall the results were quite poor. "Although overall security procedures improved the Department of Defense (DoD) recorded a failing F grade. Meanwhile the Department of Veterans Affairs - whose loss of laptops containing veterans' confidential data triggered a huge security breach - failed to submit a report. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, another agency that has trouble keeping track of its PCs, flunked."

I assume...

[Jck_Strw]

that this is completely different than yesterday's article on the same subject?

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/12/232 3232 [slashdot.org]

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[rbannon]

Well, don't they print the money? Tax or no tax, these guys are bent on taking your labor. We're all slaves!