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: Re: IP: : BUSH TO CALL FOR FERDERAL NETWORK OPERATIONS FACILITY
From: David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:10:04 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Goltz <tgoltz () QuietSoftware com> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:14:05 To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Re: IP: : BUSH TO CALL FOR FERDERAL NETWORK OPERATIONS FACILITY At 04:14 PM 8/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
The Bush administration has plans to create a centralized facility for collecting and examining security-related e-mail and data traffic and will push private network operators to expand their data-gathering initiatives, according to an unreleased draft of the plan.
So what we're going to do here is create a single facility with presumably the ability to snoop on the traffic of every ISP in the nation. This facility will be operated by an organization (the U.S. government) with an extremely poor record on computer and network security. Is there ANY hope of this facility avoiding becoming the single most attractive target for criminal activity on the Internet? Does anyone else out there find this as frightening as I do? Tom Goltz Network & Data Center Security Consultant (800) 226-6893 (603) 594-9922 (603) 594-9939 (fax) For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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