It seems worthwhile to publicize this draft report, scheduled to be released on Sept. 18. But after these two articles appeared, the White House has become very tight-lipped about what's in it. So if you have a copy of the draft, please send it along, anonymity guaranteed. My PGP key is here: http://www.mccullagh.org/about/pgp.txt Thanks, Declan --- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59168-2002Sep9.html By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 10, 2002; Page A04 As the White House moves to finalize a national plan to better secure cyberspace, high-tech firms and other companies are continuing a furious campaign to have some recommendations struck from the document. The administration no longer plans to recommend that Internet service providers such as America Online, MSN and EarthLink bundle firewall and other security technology with their software. Instead, it will ask ISPs to "make it easier" for home users to get access to such protections. It also does not plan to recommend that a privacy czar be appointed to oversee how companies make use of their customers' personal information, according to several people involved in drafting the document. [...] http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,484669,00.asp Bush to Call for Fed NOC By Caron Carlson and Dennis Fisher The Bush administration has plans to create a centralized facility for collecting and examining security-related e-mail and data traffic and will push private network operators to expand their data-gathering initiatives, according to an unreleased draft of the plan. The proposed cyber-security Network Operations Center is included in a draft of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, which was developed by the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and is due for release Sept. 18. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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