National infrastructure asset

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 23 20:53:43 UTC 2001


--- Timothy Brown <timothy.brown at pobox.com> wrote:
> It is my understanding that the US Government has "national
> infrastructure" inside Exodus facilities.  As for what that 
> means precisely, it's anyone's guess.  

What it means is that the US Treasury, and specifically the IRS, depend
heavily on those facilities to process electronic transactions
including electronic filing of tax returns.  Obviously "national
infrastructure" would include the means of financiing the Government.

-Jim P.

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