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Re: FBI To Chair World's Internet Security Summit
From: cult hero <jericho () ATTRITION ORG>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 03:22:23 -0600
http://www.computeruser.com/news/00/08/06/news6.html By Sylvia Dennis August 06, 2000 The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the FBI's computer crime investigation organization, has announced plans to chair the world's first summit on global Internet security.
Is there anything special about a 'summit'? For the past how many years, we've seen a wide variety of international symposiums on computer/network/data/internet security. They involved professionals from all sorts of organizations including foreign governments and more. They meet and discuss Internet security, often on moderated panels or discussion groups. So.. what is the real difference between these past conferences and this 'first summit' put on by the NIPC? It would be nice to see the NIPC get to work instead of worrying so much about media attention and grandstanding.
Vatis said that the objectives of the summit will be to identify how a global Internet security agency can be established, and how international law can be used to develop and enforce penalties for hackers and virus-mongers.
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