[IP] Re: an interesting analysis -- Panel Presses to Bolster Security in Cyberspace

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Dave Wilson" <dave@wilson.net>
Date: December 12, 2008 6:35:13 AM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] an interesting analysis -- Panel Presses to Bolster  
Security in Cyberspace

Hmmm. Speaking solely for myself on this. I'm not sure how widely
known this is -- apparently not very -- but all government agencies
are currently in the process of issuing smart cards to all employees
and indeed to everyone who requires routine access to a government
facility. The initiative, announced nearly four years ago as Homeland
Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD 12) was actually supposed to
be completed Oct. 27, but most agencies have not finished, according
to a recent Office of Management and Budget report. The cards are
quite powerful, possessing a wide variety of technologies designed to
allow them to be integrated into both physical and logical access
control systems.



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