Coondoggie links to a Network World story about myriad security flaws (described in a report from the supervising Accountability Office) at all levels of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the country's largest public power utility, excerpting: "The Tennessee Valley control (TVA) is a federal work that generates power using 52 fossil, hydro and nuclear apparatus in an area of about 80,000 square miles and has not fully implemented appropriate security even break to protect the control systems used to operate its critical infrastructures, the GAO concluded. TVA's combined network support and its control systems intelligent retrieval and devices at discrete apparatus and plants reviewed were vulnerable to disruptions that could endanger a good portion of the country's pecuniary security and public health and safety, the GAO said." The TVA is hardly alone, though, when it comes to direction laptop* security. Reader bc90021 points out the Federal Government's newly released compatible Security Report Card (prepared for Congressman Tom Davis), which "breaks down the agencies and assigns them all a grade. There are plenty of Fs, not the least of which is for the newly reconnected circuit of the Interior."

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