FC: Academics, executives ask for anti-terror computer security $$$

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 20:29:35 PDT

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    [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.
    
       [...]
    
    
    
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