I have to agree with that - government organisations don't understand security.
i read somewhere that the embedded software that drives the entire royal navy fleet runs on microsoft windows.
frightening thought.
World War I all began by the shooting of some duke called Ferdinand.
but it will be a buffer overflow bug in Microsoft Windows that starts World War III !
The FBI is expecting a worldwide internet blackout on March 8th, the date that the USA’s top investigators turn off servers running the trojan DNSChanger.
Bit of an extreme thing to do.
The FBI could just re-map the routing for the IP addresses of those compromised nameservers. Instead they would route to genuine and reputable servers (e.g. the public DNS servers of google or opendsn [1] [2])..
why didn't the FBI do that? what's achieved by crippling millions of infected PCs?
[1]
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS#cite_note-all_IPs-3