[Mitchell]

Trust me, there are no unprotected NT servers sitting around at Army Installations. Besides, even if there were some NT servers with security holes in them.... our routers have the ports blocked.

Are there people in the U.S. government who might bring a laptop home, say, and connect it to a LAN at their house? What about an official who connects to a government computer from home but has perhaps had a Trojan-horse keystroke logger installed on his home machine. I'm sure things are much better protected now than they were before the "hackers' war" in 2001, but still.... There are many ways to skin a cat. [And, notwithstanding the "hackers' war," this isn't about the defacement of web sites.]

[nina0113]

Are there people in the U.S. government who might bring a laptop home, say, and connect it to a LAN at their house?

Several years ago, I was working for a defense contractor, & an utter NITWIT used his manager's laptop to do classified work on, in the office, because his PC was being replaced. He wasn't supposed to be doing classified work on his own either, but he was too lazy to walk down the hall to the secure computer room which had NO external connections. When the security officer found out about it,

• the manager's computer was reformatted, no data removed first, immediately (and was she p!ssed)
• the culprit spent a very bad afternoon with security (he was eventually fired, but it took a few more months)

Most people (not the nitwit) know better than to carry classified work home.