Comments on: Chinese hackers cyberattack on Obama and McCain’s campaign networks?

By: The Dark Visitor » Chinese hackers pwn whitehouse (.gov, not the other one)

The Dark Visitor » Chinese hackers pwn whitehouse (.gov, not the other one) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:32:54 +0000

[...] Financial Times article discusses multiple security compromises in the Whitehouse network. Heike blogged already about both President-Elect Obama’s and Senator McCain’s campaign networks were [...]

By: Teri Bidwell

Teri Bidwell — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:03:43 +0000

Apparently the Obama campaign ads for LAMP devs (Linux, apache, Mysql and PHP) were seen on multiple sites in China. Not that I’m making any accusations, mind you! But I wonder to what degree foreign devs were vetted for security clearance.
For that matter, is it even REQUIRED that campaign devs possess security clearance?

If not, why not?

http://www.vifir.com/news.ejf?cmd=show&id=425989