I am not going to pretend I know how tight the US government security practices are or what procedure/protocol they use since I am not privy to that information.....though anyone could find this out they still should not wish to be privy to this information since it is not within their legal limits to know. Nor will I assume how they impliment them. Further more I will not assume that they know as much as they like to think they do. I will say this how ever; MS is the most targeted OS in the world not becuase some kid in his basement said to himself 'Hey their are a **** ton of vulnerbilities in this piece of poo'. It is the most targeted because it is the most popular OS. America is, unfortuatly, the most popular continent. Our government screams out for attention in more ways than one. If canada was run by a bunch of egotisticle ****s like our country is then they would be the number one target. In summeration, sure there may be things that our government can do to be more secuirty consiounce (sp?) but as was said....when you have a big bulls eye on your fore head in the middle of times square...who do you think the sniper is going to go after first? Just a thought.