US Attorneys Office Tells Employees in Massachusetts that Drudge Report Contains Viruses
The latest censorship news from a liberal state: “don’t “log” onto Drudge it has viruses.” I don’t think you can log onto the Drudge Report, technically speaking or at least I didn’t have to earlier today when I was on there…
This is ludicrous – viruses are all over the net and on almost every website page. Although the US Attorney’s office states that this is not political, something seems incredibly fishy to me.
I guess being infected with the truth is no longer trendy!
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses on the site.
In an e-mail message sent May 4, Paul Harvey, an information-technology official for the Boston office, wrote that security specialists with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the Department of Justice asked them “to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site.”
“Please avoid the Drudgereport website from the [United States Attorney’s Office] computers,” Harvey wrote.
Harvey said that if employees had a “work-related reason to visit the site,” access could be provided off the government network.
Asked why the conservative-leaning news aggregator and President Barack Obama critic was flagged by Internet security officials, Tracy Schmaler, a Department of Justice spokeswoman, said it was because “a malicious code was found contained in a Web ad on Drudge.”
