From the Dark Side 2--Homeland Security Department Issues National M$ Security Warning

according to this Mercury News article, the second such warning. Of course, HLS does this right after giving Microsoft a $90 million contract for their software. The ubiquitous use of swiss-cheese M$ software threatens to cause billions of damage to businesses and government so why is HLS, of all government agencies, setting such a bad example? HLS is even warning that a major attack on M$ Windows is in the offing. A DNS attack closed down Microsoft.com for an hour today. [Pete Ducklow and Dana Baggett]

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