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Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Beckman)
Mon Aug 31 12:23:28 2009

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:20:24 -0400
From: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com>
To: Jason Jenisch <jj@intelequest.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A9BF770.1080304@intelequest.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, "Hiers, David" <David_Hiers@adp.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Jason Jenisch wrote:

> Hiers, David wrote:
>> http://sip-trunking.tmcnet.com/topics/security/articles/63218-bill-give-president-emergency-power-internet-raises-concerns.htm
> I must have missed something here... I cannot find in the article or the
> bill where it states or alludes to a federal computer license
> requirement for computer users.

  "The proposal also includes a federal certification program for "cyber
  security professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems
  and networks in the private sector be managed by people who receive that
  license, CNET said."

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