http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41177-1.html
According to that article at Government Computer News, bugs in software are costing the military (and hence the American tax payer) billions of dollars in project costs and cost overruns. There are similar issues in other countries, just the US issue is obviously huge .
This just in – governments don’t manage money well. In related news, the sun rose in the east today.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Probably another way of saying that all of our critical, classified software is compromised…
Israelis Hold Keys to NSA and U.S. Government Computers
The fact that the federal intelligence agency responsible for protecting the most critical computer systems and communications networks used by all branches of the U.S. government and military is using Israeli-made encryption software should come as no surprise. The RSA press release is just the icing on the cake; the keys to the most critical computer networks in the United States have long been held in Israeli hands.
AFP inquired with the NSA about its use of Israeli-made security software for classified communications projects and asked why such outsourcing was not seen as a national security threat. Why is “America’s cryptologic organization” using Israeli encryption codes?
NSA spokesman Ken White said that the agency is “researching” the matter and would respond in the coming week.
American Free Press has previously revealed that scores of “security software” companies - spawned and funded by the Mossad, the Israeli military intelligence agency - have proliferated in the United States. The “security” software products of many of these usually short-lived Israeli-run companies have been integrated into the computer products which are provided to the U.S. government by leading suppliers such as Unisys.
Unisys integrated Israeli security software, provided by the Israel-based Check Point Software Technologies and Eurekify, into its own software, so that Israeli software, written by Mossad-linked companies, now “secures” the most sensitive computers in the U.S. government and commercial sector…
Israeli Threat Memo
The controversial unclassified 1996 US Defense Investigative Service (DOD/DIS) memo on Israeli Espionage
http://cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Israeli_Threat_Memo.htm