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US Government to Have Only 50 Gateways
Narrative Fallacy brings us a story about the US government's plan to reduce the roughly 4,000 active internet connections used by its civilian agencies to a mere 50 highly secure gateways. This comes as part of the government's response to a rise in attacks on its networks.
"Most security professionals agreed that the TIC security improvements and similar measures are long overdue. 'We should have done this five years ago, but there wasn't the heart or the will then like there is now,' said Howard Schmidt, a former White House cyber security adviser. 'The timetable is aggressive,' he said, but now there is a sense of urgency behind the program. Small agencies that won't qualify for their own connections under TIC must subcontract their Internet services to larger agencies."
History shows that any "fence" or edifice to "security" is almost always, like the Great Wall designed to keep it's citizens in, rather than invaders out.
How is this any different?
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They got the title wrong. It should read: U.S finally joins "The League of Big Brother Regimes"
Finally, the Govt itself will feel the pain of their own stupidity. Whats the difference if they have 50 firewalls or 500? This is what the terrorists want: to make working at Govt. agencies less enjoyable by cramping their internet access while making them waste millions implementing it!. Now for the reality: There are no terrorists. The goal is to make more money for contractors. We Americans foot the bill all the way. Its all a big lie, either you believe it or you go along with it to reap the benefits. Yes, 911, the pretext for all this, was an inside job!