Big Brother: U.S. Attorney’s Office Tells Employees Not To Read The Drudge Report

May 15th, 2009 (3) Posted By Pat Dollard.

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Politico:

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.”

Schmaler also said the request to stay off Drudge wasn’t politically motivated and said it was sent only to the office in Massachusetts. She also said other popular sites were later found to have potential viruses, including ESPN.com.

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  • Specter

    On mothers day at apprx 10:30 I was on Drudge, my computer started to scan on it’s own followed by the blue screen freeze.

    I couldn’t reboot in safe mode, nothing, zero, zilch.

    I had to remove the hard drive, load it into another comp to boot in normal mode. F10 in the other comp freaked and required an immediate power off. Turned it back on and was able to boot up in normal mode, transferred the hard drive back to my tower and scanned disk for errors.

    Malware infected my system with 7 T H’s. WTF-I’m back to norton.
    There may be something to the claim. Just sayin, still diggin.

  • Tom in CO

    Matt Drudge is a hero. The most unbiased news source out there. Down with TV and print media.

  • http://www.jihadwatch.org LCpl. Alexander

    :arrow: Specter

    Ive had similar problems with drudgereport, but i think maybe he needs to be more careful in who he allows to post advertisements on his site.