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Govnet - US wants more secure network |
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The Washington Post's WashTech.com reports the US government has asked some telecommunications companies to submit proposals and estimates for creating a secure network for government communications so that crackers will find it much more difficult to access or threaten government computers (U.S. Seeks to Build Secure Online Network). Some experts say that such a system would be too expensive to build. An article in ZDNet News points out that the author of the proposal, Richard Clarke, the newly appointed presidential adviser for Cyberspace Security, first made this proposal nearly a year ago (Should the government get its own Net?). The more secure network would carry data, voice-over-IP and possibly video while being immune to worms, viruses, denial-of-service attacks and other Internet hazards. USA Today carries an AP wirestory (White House seeks government computer network). Mark Rasch, a former Justice Department computer crimes prosecutor, thinks that making improvements to the Internet would be a better solution: "We're not building new highways so we can move tanks and troops from one place to another," Rasch said. "We build the highways so they can handle the transfer of both cars and trucks and, if necessary, tanks and troops." Read the RFI (Request for Information for a Government Network Designed to Serve Critical Government Functions [WORD]). Slashdot hosts a discussion (GOVNET In the Works).
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