The U.S. Attorney’s Office directed employees not to log onto the Drudge Report web

[toeknee]

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses on the site.

In an e-mail message sent May 4, Paul Harvey, an information-technology official for the Boston office, wrote that security specialists with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the Department of Justice asked them “to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site.”

“Please avoid the Drudgereport website from the [United States Attorney’s Office] computers,” Harvey wrote.

Harvey said that if employees had a “work-related reason to visit the site,” access could be provided off the government network.

Asked why the conservative-leaning news aggregator and President Barack Obama critic was flagged by Internet security
officials, Tracy Schmaler, a Department of Justice spokeswoman, said it was because “a malicious code was found contained in a Web ad on Drudge.”

Read more: "U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com" - http://www.politico.com/news/stories

They get caught in their own traps! :))

[Henry Alden]

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses on the site.

In an e-mail message sent May 4, Paul Harvey, an information-technology official for the Boston office, wrote that security specialists with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the Department of Justice asked them “to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site.”

“Please avoid the Drudgereport website from the [United States Attorney’s Office] computers,” Harvey wrote.

Harvey said that if employees had a “work-related reason to visit the site,” access could be provided off the government network.

Asked why the conservative-leaning news aggregator and President Barack Obama critic was flagged by Internet security
officials, Tracy Schmaler, a Department of Justice spokeswoman, said it was because “a malicious code was found contained in a Web ad on Drudge.”

Read more: "U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com" - http://www.politico.com/news/stories

They get caught in their own traps! :))

sure sound to me like he was telling his staff a Pelosi...:naughty:

[opsyscw]

Yes, the malicious code only attacks DOJ computers and those owned by libs.

[BasicGreatGuy]

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses on the site.

In an e-mail message sent May 4, Paul Harvey, an information-technology official for the Boston office, wrote that security specialists with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the Department of Justice asked them “to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site.”

“Please avoid the Drudgereport website from the [United States Attorney’s Office] computers,” Harvey wrote.

Harvey said that if employees had a “work-related reason to visit the site,” access could be provided off the government network.

Asked why the conservative-leaning news aggregator and President Barack Obama critic was flagged by Internet security
officials, Tracy Schmaler, a Department of Justice spokeswoman, said it was because “a malicious code was found contained in a Web ad on Drudge.”

Read more: "U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com" - http://www.politico.com/news/stories

They get caught in their own traps! :))

Link isn't working.

Here is the correct link.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22574.html

In my opinion, the workers shouldn't be surfing the internet with government computers. They aren't hired to surf the web for their own enjoyment. I see nothing wrong with the article as written.

[chris13]

Link isn't working.

Here is the correct link.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22574.html

In my opinion, the workers shouldn't be surfing the internet with government computers. They aren't hired to surf the web for their own enjoyment. I see nothing wrong with the article as written.

If that's the policy, then fine. But state it as such. Don't come up with some lame-a$$ed excuse. There are a couple of dozen ways that malicious code from websites can be avoided.
There's software to put on the computers, firewalls, proxy servers, etc.

This smells political.

[PheonixOps]

Link isn't working.

Here is the correct link.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22574.html

In my opinion, the workers shouldn't be surfing the internet with government computers. They aren't hired to surf the web for their own enjoyment. I see nothing wrong with the article as written.

Excellent points. Here's another thing that will take the wind out of the sails of faux outrage and paranoia, from the OP:
"“Please avoid the Drudgereport website from the [United States Attorney’s Office] computers,” Harvey wrote.

Harvey said that if employees had a “work-related reason to visit the site,” access could be provided off the government network."

[Ryver]

They should avoid hufpo and du as well. I'm sure that memo was attached.

[RTchoke]

What are they afraid of? Scared they might read this:

"I expect that we’ll have an announcement in the next couple of weeks with regard to our first batch of U.S attorneys," Holder said Thursday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing which stretched out over most of the day due to breaks for members' votes. "One of the things that we didn’t want to do was to disrupt the continuity of the offices and pull people out of positions where we thought there might be a danger that that might have on the continuity--the effectiveness of the offices.But...elections matter--it is our intention to have the U.S. Attorneys that are selected by President Obama in place as quickly as they can."

[Hoobeedoo Bejesus]

I'm all about the iron fist of network administration.

I'm just waiting for the green light to ban all MP3's and streaming talk radio on our network.

[RTchoke]

I'm all about the iron fist of network administration.

I'm just waiting for the green light to ban all MP3's and streaming talk radio on our network.

Party pooper. :cool:

[jimjames418]

I'm all about the iron fist of network administration.

I'm just waiting for the green light to ban all MP3's and streaming talk radio on our network.
I feel your pain. Just glad I got out of that rat race before it got as bad as it is today. :lol:

[Hoobeedoo Bejesus]

I feel your pain. Just glad I got out of that rat race before it got as bad as it is today. :lol:

Oh I still like it.

I work for a smaller company that actually listens to me. I realize it is a morale issue and cut them some slack.

[Late2TheParty]

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses on the site.

In an e-mail message sent May 4, Paul Harvey, an information-technology official for the Boston office, wrote that security specialists with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the Department of Justice asked them “to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site.”

“Please avoid the Drudgereport website from the [United States Attorney’s Office] computers,” Harvey wrote.

Harvey said that if employees had a “work-related reason to visit the site,” access could be provided off the government network.

Asked why the conservative-leaning news aggregator and President Barack Obama critic was flagged by Internet security
officials, Tracy Schmaler, a Department of Justice spokeswoman, said it was because “a malicious code was found contained in a Web ad on Drudge.”

Read more: "U.S. Attorney's office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com" - http://www.politico.com/news/stories

They get caught in their own traps! :))

They should go to Wiki Leaks instead. Probably one of the most important sites of this generation...

[avergbear]

Link isn't working.

Here is the correct link.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22574.html

In my opinion, the workers shouldn't be surfing the internet with government computers. They aren't hired to surf the web for their own enjoyment. I see nothing wrong with the article as written.

Would you say the same if Republicans banned employees accessing the Daily KOS but allowing access to the Free Republic?

If you want to limit internet access on government computers that is fine. However, they targeted a single web site, and any honest person knows it was political.

Are you an honest person?

[ruthlesspno1]

Link isn't working.

Here is the correct link.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22574.html

In my opinion, the workers shouldn't be surfing the internet with government computers. They aren't hired to surf the web for their own enjoyment. I see nothing wrong with the article as written.

Then why hasn't HuffPo, moveon.org etc etc been banned yet? Oh wait its called POLITICIZING the work place now.

[Hoobeedoo Bejesus]

Then why hasn't HuffPo, moveon.org etc etc been banned yet? Oh wait its called POLITICIZING the work place now.

Or maybe unlike conservatives they understand how the Intarweb works and keep their sites clean.

Ask Mr. Stevens if you need help with your tubes.

[dannyg79]

Then why hasn't HuffPo, moveon.org etc etc been banned yet? Oh wait its called POLITICIZING the work place now.

I used to work for the govt, and nothing was overly blocked other than the myspace type sites. But, certain aspects of Huffpo and Drudge were blocked because most of their stories were links to to other sites.