alexsays

If you're on Unix you may be interested in an object shell a guy I used to work with has been developing. It gives more objecty-ness imo: http://mash-shell.org/

It's probably one of the worst faux pars you can make in UX. I'd appreciate it if they wouldn't announce to everyone in the bathroom what I'm browsing

They should be; but security in government organisations is pretty bad. They are heavy on security on it, but in completely ineffectual areas.

If it's hitting everything it seems like it's just forking everywhere. For it to do that there must be some _really_ bad security practices

Not necessarily a coordinated attack, it could be a technique which is exploiting some weakness in security practices and they happen to have hit on these systems.