[It's amazing how so many people are willing to come to DC and claim that spending more federal tax dollars (preferably on their pet projects and/or businesses) will solve America's terrorism woes. --DBM] http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47479,00.html Fighting Evil Hackers With Bucks By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) and Ben Polen 2:00 a.m. Oct. 11, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- Worried about the threat of terrorists-turned-hackers, members of a House panel spent Wednesday puzzling over how Congress could improve computer security. [...] Politicians may not know the difference between a byte and a nibble, but they are experts in spending money. And during the aftermath of the deadly Sept. 11 attacks, legislators seem willing to sign unusually fat checks. "No federal funding agency has assumed responsibility for supporting basic research in this area -- not DARPA, not the NSF, not the Department of Energy, not the NSA," complained William Wulf, a professor of engineering and applied science at the University of Virginia who testified at the hearing. [...] Wulf said that it wasn't a temporary budget increase that was necessary -- but a permanent one. "Don't think it's an issue of a lot of money but some type of guarantee of long-term money," he said. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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