California Highway Patrol officials have opened a criminal investigation into a number of hacks into Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office computers, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.It comes after an embarrassing private taped conversation, in which Schwarzenegger referred to Latinos and African Americans as having “hot” blood or a passionate temperament, was leaked last week to the Los Angeles Times. From the Chron report: “…there was immediate suspicion the tapes were obtained by someone hacking into the computers in the governor’s office, where the tapes were stored digitally.” Some experts said government computer systems are among the most vulnerable to outside hackers — especially some systems used by California state agencies that are well known as antiquated. “Government systems are penetrated on a regular basis,” said Bev Harris, executive director of Black Box Voting, a Seattle-based group concerned about electronic voting and hacking. Is this any surprise, when the federal government is failing in cybersecurity fives years after 9/11?Talk back to us. Technology Industry