Comments on: Homeland Security can't even keep its own computer running

By: Homeland Security’s new web site sucks - Homeland Stupidity

Homeland Security’s new web site sucks - Homeland Stupidity — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:50:31 +0000

[...] The backend looks like it’s still the same Java-based crap that drove the old site, only the ends of the URLs have been changed from “xml” to “shtm”. Did Homeland Security really take a step backwards here? Server-parsed HTML dates back to the earliest days of the Web, and is almost never used these days, with so many better and more flexible alternatives available. [...]

By: Homeland Security Architect? - Homeland Stupidity

Homeland Security Architect? - Homeland Stupidity — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:01:08 +0000

[...] I offer for your consideration: DHS is hiring Security Architects to help it build its next generation IT infrastructure, OneNetwork, keep its legacy systems running, and at least make a show of trying to keep hackers out. (Oh, and it has an idiot for a webmaster.) [...]

By: Threat level forever Elevated? DHS web site changes - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:14:26 +0000

[...] Or maybe someone just forgot the graphics. After all, the webmaster over there is very busy jacking off. [...]

By: Homeland Security management sucks - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity

Homeland Security management sucks - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:02:03 +0000

[...] But that’s not all that’s in this report. It also criticizes DHS’s accounting (yep, the books suck, too), its lack of effective oversight, the fact that their computer systems suck, the fact that it still hasn’t created a national threat database, and much more. Filed under: Homeland Stupidity, Terrorism, Hurricane Katrina [...]

By: FEMA IT systems contribute to response snafus - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:43:13 +0000

[...] “For example, nine months prior to the 2004 hurricanes, FEMAâ€™s recovery program offices provided funding to develop and implement an online registration capability for NEMIS. The online system is to allow disaster victims to submit claims via the internet without having to call the National Processing Service Centers. When the 2004 hurricanes occurred, the number of disaster victims registering for assistance increased significantly, thus overloading systems and staff of the National Processing Service Centers. The EP&R CIO was able to deploy the online registration system a full three months earlier than initially planned. However, an EP&R CIO official involved in development of the online systems said that its implementation did not follow standard change management or configuration management processes. Failing to follow such processes ultimately leads to systems availability problems. . . . [...]

By: Secret Service computer security sucks - IO ERROR

Secret Service computer security sucks - IO ERROR — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:53:50 +0000

[...] Government computer security, and government IT usage in general, has sucked for as long as the government has had computers. In the last few months, I let you know about problems with FEMA’s computer systems, a Customs and Border Protection computer snafu, the unsearchable Transportation Security Administration database, the occasionally missing in action Homeland Security web site, breaches of security at the Internal Revenue Service, and government computer security overall sucking. And I’ve barely been able to scratch the surface. [...]

By: shorty114

shorty114 — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:09:40 +0000

They’ve fixed it now. Apparently it was in the middle of an upgrade, for it looks different now.

By: shorty114

shorty114 — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:16:02 +0000

I saved a static version, available here.