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Judge Orders Review of US-VISIT Virus Papers

Kevin Poulsen writes on 27B Stroke 6:

I was in federal court this morning, where Judge Susan Illston gave Wired News a partial victory in our ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation against the DHS's bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Faithful readers will recall that we're suing CBP for refusing to respond to our FOIA request for information on an August computer failure that crippled the US-VISIT system -- a nationwide network of Windows-based PCs used to perform national security screening on incoming visitors to the US.

DHS has offered the public two conflicting explanations for the failure: first, that it was the result of a computer virus infiltrating a single server in Virginia; second, that it was a random computer glitch with no security implications.

posted by Fergie @ 5/26/2006 05:00:00 PM