Cyberwar Warnings

Notok · Jan 1, 2005

Could the Internet go dark?

Some cyberspooks think it could. In a plan presented to the White House last week, the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) offered a dozen solid recommendations and calls-for-action aimed at both protecting the nation's IT infrastructure and preparing the nation for a major Internet outage.

The recommendations were cautious, but firm, calling for increased coordination between government and industry, creation of an Assistant-Secretary-level cybersecurity administrator, and, perhaps most important, intensive simulation and scenario-building related to potential attacks and their consequences.
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http://www.techweb.com/tech/security/55301791

This one gets into some pretty sticky territory.. how much do we want the US government involved in the infrastructure of the internet? I'm sure that a lot of problems could be cured by the government stepping in and regulating certain things, but is that what we really want? How much of this could be avoided by starting campaigns to educate the masses and make internet users more security conscious as a whole?

This seems like another opportunity for discussion regarding where we should draw the line.

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