Why would anyone trust this guy (FBI director) with all our data?
The Director of the FBI Robert Mueller confessed “he recently came ‘just a few clicks away from falling into a classic Internet phishing scam’ after receiving an e-mail that appeared to be from his bank… Mueller said he considers online banking ‘very safe’ but that ‘just in my household, we don’t use it [any more].’”
The article is troubling in several ways:
1) How is our FBI director ignorant of such a basic security precaution as never clicking on a link in an email… and then typing secret information into the webpage accessed via an email link?
2) If our FBI director is this ignorant of such a simple security precaution, what else might he and his subordinates in the FBI be doing that puts at risk the incredible mountains of data on every American citizen they possess and have access to?
3) If the FBI Director can’t trust himself to use online banking safely, is it that risky or is he that incompetent?
4) The U.S. government collects and analyzes basically all Internet traffic. So why are they defenseless against these phishing attacks (and large-volume spammers)? Shouldn’t they be able to identify them and shut them down?
FBI Director Mueller added, “Far too little attention has been paid to cyber threats and their consequences. Intruders are reaching into our networks every day looking for valuable information. Unfortunately they’re finding it.”
Ah, don’t tell us. Do something about it. Isn’t that your job???
Posted by James on Thursday, October 08, 2009