US Government to Have Only 50 Gateways 150
Narrative Fallacy brings us a story about the US government's plan to reduce the roughly 4,000 active internet connections used by its civilian agencies to a mere 50 highly secure gateways. This comes as part of the government's response to a rise in attacks on its networks.
"Most security professionals agreed that the TIC security improvements and similar measures are long overdue. 'We should have done this five years ago, but there wasn't the heart or the will then like there is now,' said Howard Schmidt, a former White House cyber security adviser. 'The timetable is aggressive,' he said, but now there is a sense of urgency behind the program. Small agencies that won't qualify for their own connections under TIC must subcontract their Internet services to larger agencies."
Blocklists (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Great Wall of China (Score:5, Funny)
As far as a practical implementation, I imagine that behind the network's regular firewall, one would just place a container of tigers (a "Tigerbox") that way. The firewall will work as a general security measure, but if a hacker were to break through into the network, he would be immediately eviscerated by tigers. I suppose that in theory, one could even get rid of the firewall entirely, like you suggest, and protect the network entirely with tigers. I'm not sure how practical this would be, due to the increased number of tigers required. However, it might be feasible in a few years once tigerboxes are more popular and the market begins to flood with cheap commodity tigers.
Re:Hopefully this will work out better (Score:2, Funny)
So THAT explains all of the 'enlarge your gun' spam!
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Re:DoS??? (Score:4, Funny)
A truly excellent idea. When (if) they finish this project, it should be pretty trivial to have an "Internet-free day" at Government agencies. No Dilbert! No Slashdot! Just actually do something!
On second thought, this may not be such a good idea. Carry on.