Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Former U.S. Cyber Security Czar Sharply Criticizes Bush Cyber Security Plans

Matt Hines writes on the eWeek "Security Watch" Blog:

Former White House cyber-security and anti-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke isn't known as a fan of the current administration, but political loyalties aside, the expert claims that the president's new initiative aimed at bolstering the nation's electronic infrastructure is fundamentally flawed.

As Clarke sees it, the biggest flaw in the portion of the measure devoted to protecting government computing operations is a lack of recognition that most of those systems run on the same infrastructure, and through the same carriers, as the rest of the nation's Internet traffic.

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