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White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Tue Feb 15 15:34:12 2005

From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:30:13 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
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...and following up on my last post, it would appear that the
U.S. gummint is at least taking some action wrt U.S. gummint
networks:

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10494?ref=rss

Not leaping to any conclusions here, but it would illustrate
that, at the very least, someone has concluded that the info-
security posture needs to be approached a bit more seriously.

$.03,

- ferg

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