Two-thirds of the federal agencies reviewed got failing security grades for tech security, based on Office of Management and Budget reports and General Accounting Office audits. The U.S. government is giving itself more power to cyber-snoop on citizens and suspected . . .
Two-thirds of the federal agencies reviewed got failing security grades for tech security, based on Office of Management and Budget reports and General Accounting Office audits. The U.S. government is giving itself more power to cyber-snoop on citizens and suspected terrorists, but in the wake of heightened fears of possible attacks on the country's critical information technology systems, its own computer security is getting worse instead of better, according to a government report.

A House panel responsible for reviewing government security systems gave an overall grade of "F" to the 24 agencies it scrutinized. That is a marked decrease from the "D" it issued in September of 2000.

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