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Bush Wants an Unhackable Private Network
Slur points out an article at the New York Times which says that the "Bush administration is considering the creation of a secure new government communications network separate from the Internet that would be less vulnerable to attack and efforts to disrupt critical federal activities," writing "It seems to me money would be better spent getting the next-generation Internet going, for the government to fund more of the existing research and standards boards to create protocols that are invulnerable to the kinds of attacks the government seems to fear, namely massive DOS attacks. Or is there something else a 'net terrorist' could do to 'disrupt the vital flow of information'?" Isn't hard-to-disrupt communication the reason that DARPA got involved in this "Internet" business anyhow? Update: 11/19 22:48 GMT by T : This was mentioned before a little while ago when USA Today wrote about the same concept, but apparently a Digital Pearl Harbor is still being flogged.
Perhaps in the spirit of bipartisan cooperation, he could contract Al Gore to invent one?
and can interface with the TROJAN network.
:)
It's definitely much safer to input and output if you're interfacing with TROJAN
If the current telco and internet infrastructure is any example, their efforts will do no good. A dozen terrorists with rented (or commandeered) backhoes in select locations could cause massive disruptions in the Internet (and therefore the economy). Miss Utility could even be an unwitting accomplice.
Don't even start with "physical diversity blah blah blah". The fact that your physically diverse circuits aren't has been proven time and again by the mighty backhoe/flaming hazmat car/junior achiever.
Of course some improvements to BGP wouldn't hurt either.
Alas, they don't seem to have any mp3s or warez that I don't already have. Bummer.
Somehow this whole discussion would be a lot funnier if it was Al Gore saying that he wanted his own private internet.
>Bush may not know it, but these already exist in the form of SIPRNET, and INTELNET.
:)
>SIPRNET
>SECRET INTERNET PROTOCOL ROUTER NETWORK
Ok It's a secret, Shhhhh! only you and 2,000,000 more readers now knows about it
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. That's rich. Oops, no pun intended.
-Legion