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Mike Johnson's porn "monitoring" remarks spark national security concerns
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Yeah thats all fine, scratch that. That's probably cirrext but dies nothing to stop the national security risk.
No doubt, the national security risk from something like this is pretty significant. IIRC, Covenant Eyes is basically a rootkit that you voluntarily install and you can get around it by booting from USB.
Many fundamentalists take a lot of pride in being Luddites. Knowing too much about computers and the internet can be 'Worldly'. Church networks are often wide open and church computers are frequently infected. Leadership roles in fundy churches - as low as Sunday School teacher - can come with an email address and instead of using webmail, members will install add-ridden software given by the webhosting company of their website. There are companies that specialize in providing webhost and associated services to fundie churches.
There's an entire cottage industry of 'Christian' software and computer services. You know they're good people because they have a fish symbol on their homepage and some bible crap in their about section.
The exploits write themselves.
Yeah I was in a catholic school, so all this sounds really on brand.