Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> I can't speak for Vitaliy, but what I find unbelievable is
> that the Pentagon assumed that "local adversaries" (i.e. people outside
> the USA) are generally to dumb to do this, and that they were surprised
> to find that they weren't.

Exactly. "The Arabs are too stupid to figure it out."

Also agree 100% with Russell's comments, and don't understand how BillW et 
al can think that it's not a big deal.

A similar scandal happened a couple of years ago with voting machines (saw 
the story on PBS). The spokesman for the company that made them, claimed (on 
record) they were unhackable. An engineer brought in from Finland easily 
bypassed the security and was able not only to view the votes, but to change 
the counts.

Having recently been a part of the government procurement process, I was 
able to see firsthand how inefficient and corrupt it is. And the more rules 
and laws the government puts in place, the worse it becomes. We don't need 
more regulation, we need *less* regulation, more transparency, and an 
emphasis on personal responsibility.

For more examples of government stupidity, see "The Death of Common Sense: 
How Law is Suffocating America."

Vitaliy 

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