White House Decides P2P Isn't All Bad?

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 16, 2008 @01:27AM from the someone-took-some-night-school-classes dept.

ethericalzen writes "An article this week at Cnet revealed that the White House doesn't necessarily hate everything about P2P. The Bush Administration apparently has called into question a law, known as the Federal Agency Data Protection Act, that would force all federal agencies to have plans guarding against the risks of P2P file sharing. In a Congressional hearing on IT security threats, the LimeWire founder was questioned about how his service warned users about the files and folders they are sharing. Karen Evans, the chief information officer for the federal government, stated that she was against singling out a particular technology when issuing computer security requirements. As it is the government already has a law which requires federal agencies to report on information security plans and risk assessments known as FISMA."

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Re:Conspiracy Theories by Anonymous Coward · 2008-02-16 05:46 · Score: -1, Troll

I wish everyone who believes in grand conspiracy theories could work in Washington DC for a couple of years. They would then realize that most conspiracies are a load of bull. Like the USAG scandal, yea, fiction. Fact is the Bush White House has used every tool it can reach in an effort to establish Rove's 'permanant Republican majority'. Yea, fiction.
Washington, DC was built on swamp land, and they never could get the stink out. However the Bush administration has sunk to new lows, even by that city's loose standards.