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In a letter sent recently from Senator Ron Wyden to two of his colleagues who head the Committee on Rules & Administration, it's noted that (incredibly) the ID cards used by Senate Staffers only appear to have a smart chip in them. Instead of the real thing, some genius just decided to put a photo of a smart chip [PDF] on each card, rather than an actual smart chip. This isn't security by obscurity, it's... bad security through cheap Photoshopping. From our Senate.
Moreover, in contrast to the executive branch's widespread adoption of PIV cards with a smart chip, most Senate staff ID cards have a photo of a chip printed on them, rather than a real chip. Given the significant investment by the executive branch in smart chip based two-factor authentication, we should strongly consider issuing our staff real chip-based ID cards and then using those chips as a second factor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @10:16PM (3 children)
You do realize that any loss they have due to 'hacking' is paid for by tax dollars, right?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday May 08 2017, @01:02AM (2 children)
That's not entirely true.
The first National Debt Clock was installed on February 20, 1989. [...] In 2008, as the U.S. national debt exceeded $10 trillion for the first time, it was reported that the value of the debt may have exceeded the number of digits in the clock.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Debt_Clock [wikipedia.org]
President Donald Trump will outline major tax cuts for Americans Wednesday [26 April] that could take trillions of dollars away from the federal government over the next decade and lump it on to the national debt.
-- http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-tax-plan-will-take-trillions-away-government-589983 [newsweek.com]
Then on Wednesday, [26 April] Mr. Trump unveiled the outlines of his much-anticipated tax overhaul, calling for steep tax cuts with only modest offsetting revenue increases. Economists I spoke to this week estimate it would add trillions to the national debt over the next decade.
-- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/business/economy/trump-tax-plan-deficit-column.html [nytimes.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @11:09PM (1 child)
Uh you are talking apples and oranges.
"hacking on a gov sys causes people to spend tax money"
You come back with "trump fucks up dah taxes"
Both may be true but you are offtopic.
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Monday May 08 2017, @11:24PM
The ideas I was trying to convey were that the U.S. government is to a significant extent funded by debt, and that if the current president were to have his way the proportion of the government's expenditures that comes from taxes would decrease.