Whenever I see yet another Flash security issue, I wonder if Adobie Gillis is their CEO, or maybe they should change their name.

The best project manager I ever had, had weekly meetings in which you were assigned lines in Microsoft Project- had to give an estimate when assigned- and then were asked to give percentage done for anything currently in progress, and reasons for missed deadlines.

Too bad it was a government job

Whew! For a moment you had me worried I might encounter her!

The question here is this: did the sub-human wankers who created this ever consider this possibility? Now that it's happened, do you think they give a shit? Is there a chance that someone is saying, "Gee, maybe this wasn't such a good idea..." right about now?

No, they're saying "Windows 7 will be more secure, and even better for medical devices"

Or did you mean the Conficker authors?

Someone is going to get a promotion for this. Because people who "work" in government almost never, ever get fired.

Maybe they'll find a low level grunt to blame it on..

More sites should provide an option for https, like gmail does. Some still don't even provide it for authentication.

Once upon a time there were wimpy CPUs, and https was a more significant computational burden. Now, not so much. Especially when compared to the resource requirements of most dynamic page generation systems.