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Secrecy News -- 12/03/04
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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 03:26:27 -0600 (CST)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:46:03 -0500 From: "Aftergood, Steven" <saftergood () fas org> To: secrecy_news () lists fas org Subject: Secrecy News -- 12/03/04 SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2004, Issue No. 107 December 3, 2004 ** HOMELAND SECRECY ** FLYING BLIND: THE DECLINE OF SCIENCE POLICY ADVICE ** WHITE HOUSE PANEL CRITICIZES CYBERSECURITY OVERCLASSIFICATION ** SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE 108TH CONGRESS (CRS) ** THE CLASSIFIED SILEX URANIUM ENRICHMENT PROJECT ** CIA YIELDS TO SOUTH KOREA IN SPELLING DISPUTE [...] WHITE HOUSE PANEL CRITICIZES CYBERSECURITY OVERCLASSIFICATION Sometimes the act of classifying scientific or technical information can diminish national security instead of enhancing it. Last month, a White House panel concluded that the growing classification of government research on computer security is not serving the nation well because it renders such research inaccessible outside of narrow military and intelligence channels. "Classified cybersecurity R&D is, of course, needed for numerous purposes," observed F. Thomson Leighton, chair of the cybersecurity subcommittee of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. "However, classified work tends not to benefit generic cybersecurity products--which are used throughout society (including the military and intelligence communities)," he said at a meeting last month. In the future, he said, the government should "favor unclassified basic research" in cybersecurity. Leighton's speech was first reported in the newsletter Inside the Pentagon on November 25. See "White House Panel Blasts Pentagon's Cybersecurity R&D Policies" by John T. Bennett, Inside the Pentagon, reposted with permission and with a link to the underlying presentation here: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2004/11/itp112504.html [...] _______________________________________________ Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists. To SUBSCRIBE to Secrecy News, send email to secrecy_news-request () lists fas org with "subscribe" in the body of the message. To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a blank email message to secrecy_news-remove () lists fas org OR email your request to saftergood () fas org Secrecy News is archived at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.html Secrecy News has an RSS feed at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.rss _______________________ Steven Aftergood Project on Government Secrecy Federation of American Scientists web: www.fas.org/sgp/index.html email: saftergood () fas org voice: (202) 454-4691 _________________________________________ Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) Everything is Vulnerable - http://www.osvdb.org/
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