Deliberation of "National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace" 226
An anonymous reader writes "Per the Federal Register the National Infastructure Advisory Council will have a public meeting (telephonically) from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST on 1/8/2003 to deliberate on the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. 'Written comments may be submitted at any time before or after the meeting.' Details can be found in text format or in PDF."
my hopes... (Score:3, Informative)
Please let there be some tattered shred of freedom to hang onto...it's terrible about 911 but there have been worse death counts in history with no enemy to fight...the "Death Fog" in London (1952?) comes to mind.
Good move by gov't (Score:3, Informative)
It's nice to see they also want to work with a strong public/private partnership, not solely one with private organizations. I'll try and be listening in for sure!
federal register tips (Score:3, Informative)
Re:*Ahem* (Score:3, Informative)
1 - Remove your heads from your asses.
That is asking WAYYYYY too much from any of our government officials.
The only person in government that I had ANY respect for was Gov. Jesse Ventura. he was the most HONEST politician this country has had in over 100 years. and the only one with balls and knows how to use them...
No More Fscking Gore Bashings (Score:4, Informative)
The following is from Vint Cerf, if you don't know who he is then you really shouldn't have ever bashed gore:
"As Vice President Gore promoted building the Internet both up and out, as well as releasing the Internet from the control of the government agencies that spawned it. He served as the major administration proponent for continued investment in advanced computing and networking and private sector initiatives such as Net Day. He was and is a strong proponent of extending access to the network to schools and libraries. Today, approximately 95% of our nation's schools are on the Internet. Gore provided much-needed political support for the speedy privatization of the Internet when the time arrived for it to become a commercially-driven operation."
There *is* no backbone (Score:5, Informative)
An important part of network design is understanding what traffic is going to "nearby" locations, and designing things so most traffic stays local and doesn't use expensive or scarce facilities - things like putting big hulking routers in San Francisco and San Jose so traffic between Silicon Valley companies stays in the South Bay and Multimedia Gulch companies stays in the City without needing to use too much bandwidth around the Bay, much less sending copies of all of it on three-part-carbon forms to NSA's Fort Meade, Ashcroft's J. Edgar Hoover building, and Dick Cheney's stockbroker before delivering it.
That doesn't mean that there weren't rumors from reputable sources a few years ago about active wiretaps on MAE-West sending extra copies of some packets to somebody else, or that the Russian renamed-KGB's 1998ish SORM [dfn.org] (another URL) [libertarium.ru] project didn't try to force Russian ISPs to build a full-sized wiretap feed to them (at the ISPs' expense, of course) or that there aren't Eurocrats [heise.de] trying to do the same thing in their countries today. And then there's the whole Echelon Wiretapping System [echelonwatch.org]. But it's still impractical for them to force ISPs to deliver everything everybody's reading or emailing, though I'll be happy to send them copies of most of my spam if they'd like.
On the other hand, the publicly-accessible parts of the web aren't all that big. The Wayback Machine [archive.org] has a copy of all of it, with reasonable samples going back a long time, and Google [google.com] and the other search engines crawl it periodically, and AllTheWeb.com [alltheweb.com] presumably claims to have All The Web.