Bush pressed for more Net security

[theearthisround]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/07/tech.security.reut/index.html

"The Bush administration should spend more on computer-security research, share threat information with private-sector security vendors, and set up an emergency computer network that would remain functional during Internet blackouts, a computer-security trade group said."

"The Bush administration developed a plan to improve security that relies heavily on industry cooperation and charged the Homeland Security Department with implementing it."

"The government should try to estimate the damages caused by online attacks, secure online control systems for water-treatment plants and other critical infrastructure, and urge the Senate to ratify an international cybercrime treaty, Coviello and other security experts said at a press conference."

Related
"Tenet calls for Internet controls"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1040297&mesg_id=1040297

[WMliberal]

1. i thought it was related to what tenet said too

When Tenet said that loony crap about internet security and who should and shouldn't be on the internetthe other day, it smacked of Bushista style idea generation: Float an idea. If it gets hammered by the press, bury it. If it slips under the radar, see what happens when the president says it.

The same way they floated the Mars expedition junk.