re Cybersecurity "moonshot" project to secure the internet by 2028.

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Bob Frankston" <Bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com>
> Date: November 18, 2018 at 5:37:18 AM GMT+9
> To: dave () farber net, "     'ip'" <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: RE: [IP] Cybersecurity "moonshot" project to secure the internet by 2028.
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> The report starts with a complete failure to understand the Internet and the powerful idea of separating the 
> infrastructure from what we do with it.
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> “5G Communications and other next generation networks designed and architected at the outset with enhanced security, 
> connectivity, and availability.”
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> The idea of building security and intelligence and trust into the network was the big idea of SS7 – one that the 
> Internet triumphed over by only require best-efforts forwarding of packets and not trying to second-guess innovation 
> outside the network. [This is why 5G is so attractive to phone companies trying to return to the past] Concepts like 
> trusted identity are an attempt to banish ambiguity.
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> Throwing a big rocket at the moon was a well-defined objective with well-defined metrics. Cybersecurity is a blanket 
> term for disparate and noncommensurate challenges. The first step should be understanding the landscape and then 
> having a process so we can learn how to come to terms and live with this new landscape rather than attempting to 
> conquer it as if it were an enemy we could defeat.
>
> The real danger is that this campaign is part of a strategy to kill the golden goose of the Internet with 
> telecommunications providers being active stakeholders in that effort. After all, if you can’t trust ATT who can you 
> trust?
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>  
> Bob Frankston
> http://Frankston.com
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> From: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> 
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2018 15:54
> To: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: [IP] Cybersecurity "moonshot" project to secure the internet by 2028.
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> From: Joly MacFie <joly.nyc () gmail com>
> Date: November 17, 2018 at 2:08:43 AM GMT+9
> To: dave <farber () gmail com>
> Subject: Cybersecurity "moonshot" project to secure the internet by 2028.
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> (via Eric Geller)
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> The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee just voted to send Trump a report urging the creation of 
> a cybersecurity "moonshot" project to secure the internet by 2028.
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> Here's the report: 
> https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/DRAFT_NSTAC_ReportToThePresidentOnACybersecurityMoonshot_508c.pdf
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