Bush Cyber Initiative Aims To Monitor, Restrict Access To Federal Network

dstates writes "Details of George Bush's Cyber Initiative are beginning to trickle out. The Cyber Initiative was created in January to secure government against electronic attacks. Newsweek says that over the next seven years, Bush's Cyber Initiative will spend as much as $30 billion to create a new monitoring system for all federal networks, a combined project of the DHS, the NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The U.S. government has launched a classified operation called Byzantine Foothold to detect, track, and disarm intrusions on the government's most critical networks. ComputerWorld reports that all data traffic flowing through agency networks will be checked, and that it will be inspected at a deeper level than the current system is capable of. BusinessWeek, meanwhile, reports that one requirement is to reduce the number of internet access points in the Federal Government from the thousands now in use to only 100 sites by June 2008. How this will impact public information resources such as the Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine or even the US Congress remains to be seen."

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The Issue with the George Bush Cyber Initiative...

[Skyshadow]

The big issue with the George Bush Cyber Initiative is that it's called "the George Bush Cyber Initiative".

Seriously, try saying that with a straight face: "the George Bush Cyber Initiative". Me, I'm picturing an old arcade cabinet-style version of Galga stuffed into a corner of that idiot's office (right next to the "Missile Command" cabinet that stands in as SDI).

Anyhow, just my first reaction, but it was good for a laugh on a Tuesday morning. Please go back to your normally scheduled conversation.

Re:Finally on target

[Brad Eleven]

This administration has been a consistent innovator in the areas of government stupidity and corruption. They have gone above and beyond what anyone could have expected in the realm of demonstrable incompetence. You won't see the liberal media reporting on these achievements; they actually try to use these record-breaking results to attack our Commander in Chief and his duly appointed minions.