Homeland Security Idiots Are Blowing Our Tax Dollars
September 29, 2011 at 6:37 PM Leave a comment
I just came across this:
U.S. utilities and other crucial industries face an increasing number of cyber break-ins by attackers using more sophisticated methods, a senior Homeland Security Department official told reporters during the first tour of the government’s secretive defense labs intended to protect the nation’s power grid, water and communications systems.
Acting DHS Deputy Undersecretary Greg Schaffer told reporters Thursday at one of several nondescript buildings that house Control System Security Program facilities that the world’s utilities and industries increasingly are becoming vulnerable as they wire their industrial machinery to the Internet.
“We are connecting equipment that has never been connected before to these global networks,” Schaffer said. Disgruntled employees, hackers and perhaps foreign governments “are knocking on the doors of these systems and there have been intrusions.”
My initial reaction was ah, yeah. So get your act together already and deal with it.
Oops. And then I remembered we’re broke because we’re spending billions in Iraq and Afghanistan and on really stupid stuff like this:
New fencing designed to deter terrorist attempts is being installed around all the major bridges on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway.
The 8-foot fences are part of a $7 million project funded by the federal Department of Homeland Security.
The fencing will be an effective deterrent, according to retired Newark police lieutenant Jim O’Connor is a security consultant and certified anti-terrorism specialist.
O’Connor says the fencing could help prevent terrorists from blowing up a bridge or causing other extensive damage.
Wow. We’re getting a real bang for our buck, huh? I mean, I’m pretty sure terrorists know about this little gizmo:
Jesus.
Say it ain’t so already. Please.
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