RE: Former U.S. Cyber Security Czar Calls for 'Closed Internet'

["Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov>]

> [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

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