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riaa.org, mpaa.org, and universalmusic.com I could see being unpatched, but I would have thought justice.gov would have to be patched for compliance reasons.



That's a logical point. But compliance with what? All I can find after a quick google search is National Institue of Technology GUIDELINES, and the only laws mentioned seem to deal with user privacy.

In fact, the only compliance regulations I know of with government sites have to do with accessibility.

[EDIT] Wait, I might be wrong. The DoD guide seems to cite quite a few regs, some of which may apply to the Justice department. Too bad I can't check their site :P

http://www.defense.gov/webmasters/policy/dod_web_policy_1207...



> but I would have thought justice.gov would have to be patched for compliance reasons.

I don't think that's true. I'd imagine the server behind justice.gov has no connectivity to anything important for compliance reasons, so patching it isn't really a big deal.

Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/932/




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