The ball has been rolling to reduce the number of entry points to government networks for a long time. For example, the DoD's Defense Information Systems Agency has been awarding contracts to agencies to try to reduce the amount of entry points to their systems to allow for better centralized management and security. The Air Force even threw extra money at it for their own systems:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-17-2003/0002077687&EDATE=
Because the existance of a program is unclassified unless the mere mention of a its existance threatens national interests and security.
Example: The Army is hunting terrorists in Iraq = Unclassified
Terrorist X is currently thought to be at location Y = Classified
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The ball has been rolling to reduce the number of entry points to government networks for a long time. For example, the DoD's Defense Information Systems Agency has been awarding contracts to agencies to try to reduce the amount of entry points to their systems to allow for better centralized management and security. The Air Force even threw extra money at it for their own systems:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-17-2003/0002077687&EDATE=
Because the existance of a program is unclassified unless the mere mention of a its existance threatens national interests and security. Example: The Army is hunting terrorists in Iraq = Unclassified Terrorist X is currently thought to be at location Y = Classified
Actually, this is France's way of trying to prove that French = Freedom.