-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 12/23/02 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:23:39 -0600 From: "NIPC Watch" <nipc.watch@private> To: "Information Technology" <information_technology@private> December 20, New York Times - Bush administration to propose system for monitoring Internet. The President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board is preparing a report, "The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace," that will probably be released early next year. It is a component of the effort to increase national security after the Sept. 11 attacks and aims to create public and private cooperation to regulate and defend the national computer networks, not only from everyday hazards like viruses but also from terrorist attack. Ultimately it is intended to provide an Internet strategy for the new Department of Homeland Security. A proposal in the report would require Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users. Such a proposal, which would be subject to Congressional and regulatory approval, would be a technical challenge because the Internet has thousands of independent service providers, from garage operations to giant corporations like American Online, AT&T, Microsoft and Worldcom. Source. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/20/technology/20MONI.html _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv http://listserv.infragard.org/mailman/listinfo/information_technology
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