The Department of Defense has implemented the Standard Desktop Configuration (SDC) environment which allow all systems to have a uniform level of security. 

ALL SDC all the time: https://afecmo.gunter.af.mil/default.aspx

Now the rest of the federal goverment is jumping on the Information Assurance Bandwagon with something called the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC).

SDC version 2 (Vista) is already in the works as well as Standard Server Configuration (SCC).

It reminds me of Space Balls.  The evil Space Balls kidnap Princess Vespa and force King Roland into giving up his password that will allow them to suck all the precious air off of planet Druidia.  That password it “12345” (which just happens be the same password Space Ball President Skroob has on his luggage).

 The Triton ATMs have two levels of password: an administrative passcode for routine daily operations, and a “master passcode” that also lets you change the cash machine’s basic configuration.  Mastrorocco says he changed the administrative code when he got the machine three years ago, but Cardtronics never told him to change the master passcode, which he didn’t normally use.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/atm-reprogrammi.html – ATM Reprogramming Caper Hits Pennsylvania

 

While this is the first major infiltration to involve cellphones, the scheme did not depend on the wireless nature of the network. Basically, the hackers broke into a telephone network and subverted its built-in wiretapping features for their own purposes. That could have been done with any phone account, not just cellular ones. Nevertheless, there are some elements of the Vodafone Greece system that were unique and crucial to the way the crime was pulled off.

Basically, the hackers broke into a telephone network and subverted its built-in wiretapping features for their own purposes.

Interactive Time Line: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul07/5280/time

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