Reliance on Microsoft called risk to U.S. security

[John Young]

The US General Accounting Office today issued "Critical
Infrastructure Protection: Challenges in Securing Control 
Systems," testimony before Congress yesterday, which 
discusses widespread infratructure vulnerabilities caused 
by increasing use of Microsoft OS, "Unix-like" systems 
and Internet protocols in process control. It describes
as well readily available information about control systems 
and why industry footdragging could impact national 
security:

  http://cryptome.org/gao-04-140t.htm


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