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Posted on 05/15/2009 1:34:30 PM PDT by Mozilla
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses on the site.
In an e-mail message sent May 4, Paul Harvey, an information-technology official for the Boston office, wrote that security specialists with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the Department of Justice asked them “to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site.”
“Please avoid the Drudgereport website from the [United States Attorney’s Office] computers,” Harvey wrote.
Harvey said that if employees had a “work-related reason to visit the site,” access could be provided off the government network.
Asked why the conservative-leaning news aggregator and President Barack Obama critic was flagged by Internet security officials, Tracy Schmaler, a Department of Justice spokeswoman, said it was because “a malicious code was found contained in a Web ad on Drudge.”
Schmaler also said the request to stay off Drudge wasn’t politically motivated and said it was sent only to the office in Massachusetts. She also said other popular sites were later found to have potential viruses, including ESPN.com.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I wonder if DU is on that “list?” If anything, for four letter words...
Duplicate!!!!!
To some people, the truth is a virus.
Sounds like BS to me. This sounds more like DemoRats wanting to block people from reading a news site that will show news that isn’t written with DemoFascist spin in effect.
bttt
This is practically an admission that the original directive WAS politically motivated.
That may be so, but Drudge does have a problem, in terms of causing users to get infected, and this is from other FReepers reporting the problem...
Sounds like a rumor Drudge may have started to boost traffic.
MA
a liberal homo hell hole which shouts tolerance and yet is the most intolerant to those with a different view, with a religion unless Muslim etc
course they have homo sham marriage but fireworks are not allowed to be sold in the state(bizarre)
strict on gambling but they believe homosexuality should be taught in schools
only recently they allowed by law native Americans to enter the city limits
it’s a very very bizarre state, even more bizarre they do not allow beer or wine to be sold at gas stations and stop selling at a certain time
Well, it’s not politically motivated that other FReepers have reported infections from Drudge’s website...
And the reason given is because it contains virus’ like “espn.com”.
You said — Duplicate!!!!!
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LOL!! The other FReeper “original thread”....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251799/posts
No, what it’s saying is that there are viruses at other popular websites, too — like espn.com (which are probably coming from these ads that we keep getting hammered with, especially on Drudge since he forces a reload about every 30 seconds or so... LOL...)
And other FReepers have reported being infected from Drudge, too...
“....due to potential viruses on the site.”
Of course they would see the truth as a virus.
bump to the top
Ya beat me to it...
I call BS.
You said about liquor — “... and stop selling at a certain time”
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Heck, in Texas they stop selling beer at midnight in grocery stores... LOL...
I guess that must be something weird in some states, eh?
In a word they are Reprobate.
You said — To some people, the truth is a virus.
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Yeah, including some here on this thread... LOL...
Ya know... there are FReepers reporting infections from Drudge’s website, too...
BS .... government systems have all kinds of neat ways using proxies and other technology to scrub pages and defend systems against attacks.
I;ve spent time up there and the media is in total blackout mode.
I remember once I left down here and drove up there , the next day I sat in front of a TV to watch the news there and by word the news was so biased, they twisted the news, they left out parts, they made up parts and yet the MA people had no clue to what really is going on up there.
My mother in law is up there and she was talking to my wife when she mentioned about the train driver causing the crash because of texting.
My mother in law had no clue that the man was a woman who got hired because he was classed as a minority based on the sex change
The media had left all of that info out and the people up there had no clue why he sorry she really was given the job etc.
sad, I wish some rich guy could take over the news channels up there and had them report the news and then told the poeple up there what the Dems /left/homos are really about.
Sounds like that to me also.
This will likely enhance curiosity about drudgereport.com, at least from employees’ home computers.
You said — Sounds like a rumor Drudge may have started to boost traffic.
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Well, the virus attack on Drudge is more than a rumor, as other FReepers are reporting it, too...
Of course, I just tell them to get a Macintosh. I don’t have problems with those pesky infections, even on Drudge, which I access all the time...
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
REALLY
I drove up to CT last week and took the blue ridge mountain route which was nice.
I got to PA and thought I would settle down for the night and have a few beers to help to get some sleep.
When I asked at the TA and other places to get a beer they looked at me like I had a chicken sitting on my head
WtF?
Unfortunately these are reactive systems to known vulnerabilities - not perfect against all future attacks. And the number one vulnerability is the user.
I don't doubt this is a political move, but they picked a good excuse, especially for Drudge. He's needed to clean up his site for a long long time.
Prove it!
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
US Attorney’s are political hacks regardless who appoints them. Truth and justice are not really their concern - just doing their master’s bidding.
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