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Federal Cyberspace Policy Draft Released
mh_cryptonomicon writes "The initial public draft of the National Strategy for Securing Cyberspace was released today. This document outlines the Administration's plan for ensuring that the Net remains a 'good neighborhood.' Following the release of the plan, the Administration's Cybersecurity team will take it on the road for discussions with the people about what can and should be done to protect and defend the net. More information (and the 65 page draft) can be downloaded from the White House's Critical Infrastructure Protection site. This draft is considerably smaller than the 3300 page monster it was reported as being. Commentary is starting to pop up everywhere, including www.cryptonomicon.net/blog/."
Actually, that brings up a good point. Suppose Gore were President in the post-9/11 age. It seems pretty likely to me that he wouldn't have chosen a bunch of techno-illiterates and Microsoft lackeys to design a security plan. ("Strategy." Whatever.) You can argue about what he did or didn't say about "creating the Internet" until you're blue in the face, but that fact is that the people who built the modern Internet agree that Gore is a hell of a lot more knowledgeable about it than the average politician. (To say nothing about the below-average ones like our alleged President.) I don't know what we'd get from a Gore administration on this subject, but I'll bet it would be a lot better than this empty tripe.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
A few days ago, I wrote an essay called, "Cyberwar: How Terrorists Could Defeat the U.S., and Why They Won't."
www.cryptogon.com/docs/cryptogon_cyberwar.pdf
It discusses physical threats to information infrastructures that are almost never mentioned publicly.
NOTE: Acrobat 5 is required to view the document.
WARNING: The information contained in this document is intended for educational purposes only. Anyone who attempts to undertake what is described in the "Possible Terrorist Scenario" section will be committing an act of war against the states involved. I am NOT encouraging anyone to carry out what is described in that section. I am exercising my First Amendment right to free speech to make people aware of the dangers posed to the global information infrastructure. Our society relies on these technologies, and an open discussion of the threats to these technologies is necessary in order to defend them.
Interesting point. I've been looking into emigration myself. There's just one problem... There's nowhere left to run.
There are no more frontiers. Well, none I can get to anyway. Sure I could disappear into a jungle, or forest, or even the ocean, but I wouldn't really be safe from the forces that made me want to flee. Just ignored, for now. Until the next invocation of "the public good."
There are also no countries I've looked into that don't have the same sorts of state welfare systems, stupid legislatures, corrupt executive branches, and immoral corporations that I desperately want to get away from.
But... If you know of place where there isn't much crime or pollution, where there are no politicians standing in line to be bought by the highest bidder, where the leaders are wise and benevolent, where the people live in harmony and don't mind each other's business, I'd love to know about it. Sadly, I believe such a place only exists in fiction anymore, if it there ever was one.
Who reported that it was 3300 pages???? I saw Richard Clarke about 2 months ago, and he had a draft with him at the time. Nobody got to see it, but it was in an envelope and couldn't have been more than 80 pages... I don't think it was ever envisioned as being more than that.