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White House Decides P2P Isn't All Bad?
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."
...filesharing is the number 1 threat of leaking sensitive information. Damn, and I wasted all that money on memory sticks, FTP servers, back doors, and searching busses, taxis and trains trying to get my hands on secret data.
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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. The vast majority of the government is run by civil servants that are NOT political appointees. And having worked in Washington, if you get a stupid political appointee as a boss, the system has a lot of inertia, and tends to wait them out. Look at the track record for most appointees, based on my experience, most of them don't last four years. A couple of years is normal. Its easy for the bureaucracy to drag its feet for a couple of years. With a new appointee, you get new priorities. Problem solved. That and Washington leaks like a colander. Keeping a secret is impossible.