{"id":199817,"date":"2007-06-25T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/25\/and-these-guys-are-protecting-us\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T16:05:00","slug":"and-these-guys-are-protecting-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/25\/and-these-guys-are-protecting-us\/","title":{"rendered":"And These Guys are Protecting US???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would that Karl Rove&#8217;s evil minions were so incompetent.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/06\/22\/department_of_defense_email_hacked\/\">Hacker breaks into Pentagon email system<\/a><br \/><\/span><br \/>By Austin Modine in Mountain View<br \/>Published Friday 22nd June 2007 00:20 GMT<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon took as many as 1,500 computers offline yesterday to stamp out a security breach in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told reporters in a news briefing today that a hacker had penetrated an unclassified OSD email system, prompting the shutdown. The system reportedly does not contain information related to military operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A variety of precautionary measures are being taken. We expect the systems to be online again very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would that Karl Rove&#8217;s evil minions were so incompetent. Hacker breaks into Pentagon email systemBy Austin Modine in Mountain ViewPublished Friday 22nd June 2007 00:20 GMT The Pentagon took as many as 1,500 computers offline yesterday to stamp out a security breach in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. US Secretary of Defense Robert &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1211,1061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-defense","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}