The Obama administration is going to announce that they will be following the Bush era plan to use the National Security Agency (NSA) to screen traffic of private Internet companies, so says the Washington Post.
Under a classified pilot program approved during the Bush administration, NSA data and hardware would be used to protect the [...]
From the law on unintended consequences, or from the huffery and puffery that goes before new tax changes we have this nugget about Microsoft’s CEO Steve Balmer challenging the proposal of Barrack Obama.
“It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said, according to Bloomberg News. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the [...]
When you get big, you get targeted. More or less. And with a dominant market share in search, it was only a matter of time a matter of a new pro-anti-trust administration before Google moved into the crosshairs of the trust-busters. TheHill (which you should read regularly) is talking not only about the moves in [...]
The President’s Cybersecurity review has led to a typical Washington power struggle being reported in the Wall Street Journal, this time taking place within the confines of the White House itself. At issue is Lawrence Summers and the economic recovery versus the National Security Council and their desire for making this a security issue.
Mr. Summers [...]
The NY Times has a long piece about the efforts of the Pentagon not only to stop the hackers and foreign entities who are constantly probing our networks, but also our abilities to turn tables on them and go on the offensive. Included in such discussions and planning are throwbacks to the Nuclear age. [...]
The Washington Times is reporting that President Obama’s new super-duper secure Blackberry (it’s an industry term) is almost ready. The Blackberry 8830 is in the final stages of being developed by the NSA to include an encryption standard that meets (or exceeds) the federal requirements.
The software being used is called SecureVoice, developed by the Genesis [...]
Obama’s new CTO has been quoted as a fan of ‘green computing‘–more energy efficient desktops and servers and data centers. Given the federal government’s haphazard computer purchasing system (a little here, a little there, and more than likely never the same thing twice) it will be interesting to see if he can bring some semblance [...]
No, it’s not a plot line from Dr. Who.
It’s the Pentagon and the new ‘CyberCommand’ that will soon be ’stood up’ to use military parlance. Cybercommand will take some of the operations of Strategic Command some of the operations of NSA and DIA. It would not affect the cyber efforts of DHS however.
Still to be [...]
A 60-day review of cybersecurity is coming to a close, but don’t expect a great deal of depth or a blueprint for procedures going forward, according to Government Computer News due to the real problem that continues to confront policy makers and agencies when it comes to IT security–who is in charge?
The results will yield [...]
This makes five if you lost count.
Monday’s naming of Ian Gershengorn, to become the department’s deputy assistant attorney of the Civil Division, comes more than a week after nearly two-dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library coalitions urged the new president to quit filling his administration with lawyers plucked from the Recording Industry Association of America.
Gershengorn, [...]
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