Re: Wow, just when you though big government was someone else's problem

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Jeff Young <young () jsyoung net> wrote:
> This comes from Lauren Weinstein's list and it's worth a read.
> It's a bill introduced into legislation, who knows where and when
> and if it will become law but, wow.
>
> http://lauren.vortex.com/Cyber-S-2009.pdf

Relying on Lauren to hear about cybersecurity related news is like
relying on Fox News for an accurate picture of what Obama is doing.
Ignore.

> I'll just give you a teaser:
>
> SEC. 9. SECURE DOMAIN NAME ADDRESSING SYSTEM.

There's more than enough government supported work going on that
promotes DNSSEC, in case you're not aware?

> Other pearls of wisdom:  the government will license all "cyber" security
> folks and you don't work on government or "any network deemed by
> the president to be critical infrastructure" without one.

Do you by any chance get to go work on sensitive government networks
without, say, a security clearance?

--srs