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Government Audit Finds FBI Network Filled With Security Holes

A critical FBI communications network containing sensitive law enforcement and investigative data is rife with security flaws and is vulnerable to attacks from outsiders and insiders alike, according to an audit released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office. The unnamed network is part of the long delayed and scandal plagued Trilogy system that the FBI wants to replace its network of computers and networks, which for years was so bad that agents reportedly couldn't email one another.

Critical FBI Network Full of Security Holes, Government Auditors Report, Wired News, May 24, 2007.