{"id":10487,"date":"2013-07-08T19:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T00:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10487"},"modified":"2013-07-08T19:18:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T00:18:17","slug":"us-agency-baffled-by-modern-technology-destroys-mice-to-get-rid-of-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10487","title":{"rendered":"US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>EDA&#8217;s CIO, fearing that the agency was under attack from a nation-state, insisted instead on a policy of physical destruction. The EDA destroyed not only (uninfected) desktop computers but also printers, cameras, keyboards, and even mice. The destruction only stopped\u2014sparing $3 million of equipment\u2014because the agency had run out of money to pay for destroying the hardware.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2013\/07\/us-agency-baffled-by-modern-technology-destroys-mice-to-get-rid-of-viruses\/\">US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And you want these people in charge of economic development?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDA&#8217;s CIO, fearing that the agency was under attack from a nation-state, insisted instead on a policy of physical destruction. The EDA destroyed not only (uninfected) desktop computers but also printers, cameras, keyboards, and even mice. The destruction only stopped\u2014sparing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10487\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1087,347,185],"class_list":["post-10487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-issues","tag-government-contracts","tag-malware","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10489,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions\/10489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}