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US Pentagon tells Missile Defense Agency workers to quit surfing porn
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The director of the US Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has chided employees and contractors for using government computers to surf porn.
The MDA, an agency of 8,000 employees, develops, fields, and upgrades the country's ground-and sea-based missile defense programs.
On July 27, Executive Director John James Jr. sent out a memo citing instances of workers accessing x-rated sites as well as emailing explicit images—usage that exposes the network to malware or malicious code.
Bloomberg News quotes the memo:
These actions are not only unprofessional, they reflect time taken away from designated duties, are in clear violation of federal and [Department of Defense] regulations, consume network resources and can compromise the security of the network though the introduction of malware or malicious code.
In the one-page memo, James wrote that in recent months government employees and contractors were detected engaging in inappropriate use of the MDA network...
[link to nakedsecurity.sophos.com]
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