Re: IP: : BUSH TO CALL FOR FERDERAL NETWORK OPERATIONS FACILITY

[David Farber <dfarber@earthlink.net>]

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From: Tom Goltz <tgoltz@QuietSoftware.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:14:05 
To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: IP: : BUSH TO CALL FOR FERDERAL NETWORK OPERATIONS FACILITY

At 04:14 PM 8/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >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.

So what we're going to do here is create a single facility with presumably 
the ability to snoop on the traffic of every ISP in the nation.  This 
facility will be operated by an organization (the U.S. government) with an 
extremely poor record on computer and network security.

Is there ANY hope of this facility avoiding becoming the single most 
attractive target for criminal activity on the Internet?  Does anyone else 
out there find this as frightening as I do?



Tom Goltz
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