{"id":6950,"date":"2014-02-05T08:07:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T13:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2014-02-05T08:09:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T13:09:55","slug":"does-anybody-really-know-what-time-it-is-does-anybody-really-care-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/does-anybody-really-know-what-time-it-is-does-anybody-really-care-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alfred_E__Neuman\"<\/a>Is it just us or does it seem that for the last 40-50 years governments are becoming increasingly, utterly clueless? OK, you’re right — we don’t know jack about other governments, so we will confine our comments to the government we know and love the best — the U.S. government. We are qualified to comment on the U.S. government because we’re both old and we’ve both lived in the U.S.A. for many decades — plus we’ve paid tens of thousands of dollars in tax dollars which support the buffoons who run things — heck, we can’t even vote for these folks — they are actually hired by the folks somebody voted for.<\/p>\n

If you want to sleep well, keep on reading. If you live outside the U.S.A., please don’t laugh too loudly… it’s not polite!<\/p>\n

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Government Passwords Are Incredibly Easy to Hack<\/h2>\n

Some of the federal government\u2019s most sensitive data are protected by passwords that wouldn\u2019t pass muster for even the most basic civilian email account, according to a new congressional report.<\/p>\n

Passwords like \u201cpassword,\u201d \u201cqwerty,\u201d and users\u2019 names have left Homeland Security Department data vulnerable, says a report released Tuesday by the Republican staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n

And the password fiasco, the report says, is only the tip of the iceberg\u2014plenty of other agencies have lost sensitive data as well.<\/p>\n

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission left nuclear-plant security details on a shared drive with no protection. Hackers swiped Information on the nation\u2019s dams\u2014including their weaknesses and catastrophic potential if breached\u2014from an Army Corps of Engineers database.<\/p>\n

All that\u2019s too much for Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the panel\u2019s top Republican. \u201cWeaknesses in the federal government\u2019s own cybersecurity have put at risk the electrical grid, our financial markets, our emergency-response systems, and our citizens\u2019 personal information,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

So far, the security failings have been more comedic than catastrophic (in one instance, hackers used the Emergency Broadcast System to warn TV viewers of a zombie outbreak). But the report warned we may not be so lucky in the future\u2014and the problem appears to be widespread…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest of this article here.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Is it just us or does it seem that for the last 40-50 years governments are becoming increasingly, utterly clueless? OK, you’re right — we don’t know jack about other governments, so we will confine our comments to the government we know and love the best — the U.S. government. We are qualified to comment on the U.S.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1426,1656],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6954,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions\/6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}