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."

Comments

Re:The Issue with the George Bush Cyber Initiative

[Sfing_ter]

My understanding was that George Bush's Cyber Initiative was getting Achy Breaky Heart onto his iPod, mission unaccomplished?

It's easy

[davidwr]

When your initiative is to protect access to your emails so that people who don't need access can't get to them, even if that means people who should can't either, then it's mission accomplished.

Kind of like the Iraq war: The Saddam Hussain regime is forever prevented from controlling weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Mission accomplished, damn the consequences.

Re:The Issue with the George Bush Cyber Initiative

[Skuld-Chan]

I had much dirtier thoughts - I'm thinking of a bunch of Bush whitehouse people hanging out on RP servers all day trying to chat up skirts.