Tuesday, July 9, 2013

SmartGov: Gov’t agency spends millions, destroys $170K in hardware to get rid of computer virus « Hot Air

SmartGov: Gov’t agency spends millions, destroys $170K in hardware to get rid of computer virus « Hot Air: "EDA’s CIO, fearing that the agency was under attack from a nation-state, insisted instead on a policy of physical destruction. The EDA destroyed not only (uninfected) desktop computers but also printers, cameras, keyboards, and even mice. The destruction only stopped—sparing $3 million of equipment—because the agency had run out of money to pay for destroying the hardware."

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