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RE: Former U.S. Cyber Security Czar Calls for 'Closed Internet'
From: "Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:34:18 -0400
[Richard] Clarke said. "Why should the part of the internet that's connected to the power grid be open? Why should that part of the internet that runs nuclear laboratories be open? Why shouldn't there be a closed internet? There are already relatively closed internets - and now we need to think seriously about expanding them."
He has a bad choice of words ("closed internet" sends shivers through my spine), but he is absolutely correct: 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNET 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWICS 3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIPRNET It has been done, "relatively" successfully, for years. --Keith Keith Young, Security Official Department of Technology Services Montgomery County, Maryland phone - (240) 777-2955 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Former U.S. Cyber Security Czar Calls for 'Closed Internet' Paul Ferguson (Oct 02)
- RE: Former U.S. Cyber Security Czar Calls for 'Closed Internet' Larry Seltzer (Oct 02)
- RE: Former U.S. Cyber Security Czar Calls for 'Closed Internet' Young, Keith (Oct 02)
- Re: Former U.S. Cyber Security Czar Calls for 'Closed Internet' Dude VanWinkle (Oct 02)