{"id":286,"date":"2013-07-08T20:09:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T23:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2013-07-08T20:09:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T23:39:17","slug":"in-the-gotta-be-kidding-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"In the &quot;Gotta Be Kidding&quot; File&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I read the article<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2013\/07\/us-agency-baffled-by-modern-technology-destroys-mice-to-get-rid-of-viruses\/\" target=\"_blank\">US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>today I couldn&#8217;t believe it&#8230; Is this April 1st &#8211; a\/l\/a April Fools&#8217; Day? From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EDA&#8217;s CIO, fearing that the agency was under attack from a nation-state, insisted instead\u00a0on a policy of physical destruction. The EDA destroyed not only (uninfected) desktop computers but also printers, cameras, keyboards, and even\u00a0<em>mice<\/em>. The destruction only stopped\u2014sparing $3 million of equipment\u2014because the agency had run out of money to pay for destroying the hardware.<\/p>\n<p>The total cost to the taxpayer of this incident was $2.7 million: $823,000 went to the security contractor for its investigation and advice, $1,061,000 for the acquisition of temporary infrastructure (requisitioned from the Census Bureau), $4,300 to destroy $170,500 in IT equipment, and $688,000 paid to contractors to assist in development a long-term response. Full recovery took close to a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like&#8230; WOW!!!!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I wonder if they are looking for a new CIO?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read the article\u00a0US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses\u00a0in\u00a0\u00a0Ars Technica\u00a0today I couldn&#8217;t believe it&#8230; Is this April 1st &#8211; a\/l\/a April Fools&#8217; Day? From the article: EDA&#8217;s CIO, fearing that the agency &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}