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Feds Plot Massive Internet Router Security Upgrade
BobB-nw writes "The U.S. federal government is accelerating its efforts to secure the Internet's routing system, with plans this year for the Department of Homeland Security to quadruple its investment in research aimed at adding digital signatures to router communications. DHS says its routing security effort will prevent routing hijack attacks as well as accidental misconfigurations of routing data. The effort is nicknamed BGPSEC because it will secure the Internet's core routing protocol known as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). (A separate federal effort is under way to bolster another Internet protocol, DNS, and it is called DNSSEC.)
Douglas Maughan, program manager for cybersecurity R&D in the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, says his department's spending on router security will rise from around $600,000 per year during the last three years to approximately $2.5 million per year starting in 2009."
it won't do anything but make your dick stink
The question I have for Obama is this: Who is stimulating the economy? Me, the guy who has provided 14 people good paying jobs and serves over 200,000 people per year with a flourishing business? Or, the single fat colored mammy sitting at home pregnant with her fourth child waiting for her next welfare check?
And as far as router security upgrades go, I'm sure B. Hussein Obama doesn't give a rat's ass. For my part, I give router security upgrades two thumbs up.
A separate federal effort is under way to bolster another Internet protocol, DNS, and it is called DNSSEC.
That's the name of a set of protocols that predates the DHS, not their effort.
Wow, the RFC that DNSSEC is based on is only 10 years old, so moving at the speed of .gov, they're "right on time". Punctual bunch, aren't they?
And what's this "they're calling it DNSSEC" crap? Damn 10-year old RFC and they're prancing around like they came up with the idea 3 months ago. Who's in charge of this, Al Gore? It would make sense, I mean after all, he invented the Internet, right?