>>> "David S." <davids@idiom.com> 4/07/2002 12:18:36 >>>

> Under US DoD (and possibly DoE) procedures, systems holding classified=20=

> information are "air-gapped" - no physical connections to any non-secure=
=20
> system.  I read somewhere (and this may be apocryphal) that day after =
the=20
> Melissa virus hit, a sys admin at Sandia checked one of the air-gapped
> networks and found numerous copies of the virus.
>=20
> Firewall or no, the prudent assumption always is that the network is
> un-trustworthy.
>=20
> David S.

Perhaps their "air-gap" was maintained via 802.11b?

;-)

Rich.