Commission suggests anti-hacker security plan
President-elect Barack Obama should create a new White House office to protect cyberspace from hackers, thieves and foreign agents, coordinating security efforts across U.S. military, intelligence and civilian agencies, according to a new report from a panel of leading government and industry experts. The report, expected to be made public Monday on Capitol Hill, also urges Obama’s new administration and Congress to pass new laws to allow for speedier investigations — and in some cases quicker retaliation once intruders are identified. It proposed online “data warrants,” for example, rather than traditional search warrants, which it said “may be increasingly impracticable in the online environment.”
Chances are good Obama will be receptive to many of the proposals: At least five members of the panel that produced the report also are working for his presidential transition team. “Responding to a cyber attack is a tough issue,” said James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think-tank that organized the commission. “Do operators respond with law enforcement, espionage or military actions? The guidelines are really unclear. The rules designed in the 1980s are slow, and the Internet is fast.” The proposals by the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency were being delivered to Capitol Hill during a period of increasing exasperation within the U.S. government over embarrassing computer break-ins at the Pentagon, White House, State Department, Commerce Department and elsewhere that have been traced in recent years across foreign borders, notably to Russia and China.
Source: AP
Comments(13)
first?
lol it dont real matter sum 1 will shoot the negro b4 he takes power
The ignorant inbred above me should be banned.
Why hasn’t it happened yet.
After 100s of years of evolution, number 2 your ignorante.
R-i-ght.
Maybe he makes a change. Can’t get any more crappy then Bush.
@5
Yes, he can me more “crappy” than Bush. Obama could allow a terrorist attack on US soil.
I wonder how long it will be before the government will consider downloading as a cyber attack against the movie and music industry.
@Erok713: So you are saying.. 9/11 with the twin towers wasn’t on the US soil? Sorry but that was a terrorist attack.. Even if some believe it was the US who caused it.. It’s still a Terrorist attack..
@9 don’t even bother the depth of ignorance on display from these inbred low lifes dictates discussion is pointless their ignorance and fear feeds on the most reasonable fact.
pretty soon one of them will come in here accusing the prez elect of being a ’socialist’ not because he is look at everything he has done since the election it has all been about using taxes to prop up corporations at the expense of the masses, which is the antithesis of socialism, but because they heard some drugged out pederast talking head (bill o’reilly)say so on faux news.
This move which is using the non existent threat of terrorism to impinge on eveyone’s liberty so as to aid corporations maximise their profits by making a crime out of the civil issue of whether people can be forced to pay for something that doesn’t exist in the normal sense, is typical of what amerikans can expect under obama and his paid up members of the amerikan corporate empire party (dem branch).
Yet the ninnies will miss the reality as they throw cliches that they can’t comprehend, like ’socialist’ at a dyed in the wool corporate capitalist.
RLS Links please…
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The first step to losing the internets. It can get worse than Bush. You think the RIAA is bad? Ooh, you haven’t seen anything yet!
What will actually get accomplished is that the kind of people who visit this site will get busted; the so-called “cyber attack” perpetrators (read, the Chinese Military) will always be one step ahead, and untouchable (for political reasons) anyway.
We all need to wake up and see who the real enemy is; this is not the type of change that the U.S. voters were expecting.
Bend over: its coming!
9, 11 and 12 hit the nail on the head.
I have high hopes that Obama will make some positive changes, but don’t be deceived into thinking he’s really any more left wing than Bush (or any other Pres for the past few decades) – he’s just more intelligent, and understands politics better.
This security plan will have NO EFFECT on the serious security breaches – it’ll just mean the cops can bust us for downloads without waiting a while for a warrant. Because the process will be easier, they’ll do it a lot more often under the pretence of ‘clamping down’, when actually it just serves to improve conviction stats, and cover up the PDs’ incompetence at catching serious criminals.
Seriously, beginning of the end.
@2 – Sidestepping the fact that you’re a moron, Obama has a great insurance policy – Joe Biden. Who’s going to kill Obama knowing Biden would take over, seriously?