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Judge Orders DHS to Come Clean on Border Cyber Attack

Kevin Poulsen writes on 27B Stroke 6:

A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to give me additional documents on a cyber attack that shut down portions of the national border screening system last year.

The government had argued that releasing more than six partially-blacked-out pages on the August 2005 incident would make the sensitive US-VISIT system vulnerable to computer intruders. After reviewing the 672 pages of documents the government has in its possession, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston is unconvinced.

posted by Fergie @ 9/26/2006 06:03:00 PM