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12-13-2008, 10:35 AM
Obama urged to establish new office for regulating Internet
Posted: December 09, 2008
10:36 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
A panel of web experts from government, private and the military sectors released a report yesterday urging the next president to establish a new office of cyberspace security and begin federal regulation of the Internet.
The report, "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency," from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank established during the Cold War, alleges the Department of Homeland Security has failed to secure the Internet and new measures are needed – despite inevitable concerns about online privacy – to keep America safe.
"We still have an industrial-age government that was organized a century ago," said Jim Lewis, one of CSIS's directors, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. "The DHS has a 1970s-style solution to a 21st century problem."
"The United States must treat cybersecurity as one of the most important national security challenges it faces," the CSIS panel asserts in its report. "This is a strategic issue on par with weapons of mass destruction and global jihad."
To back its claim, the panel cites a litany of cybersecurity breaches that it claims hit sensitive areas in 2007 alone:
read it all..
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83156
Posted: December 09, 2008
10:36 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
A panel of web experts from government, private and the military sectors released a report yesterday urging the next president to establish a new office of cyberspace security and begin federal regulation of the Internet.
The report, "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency," from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank established during the Cold War, alleges the Department of Homeland Security has failed to secure the Internet and new measures are needed – despite inevitable concerns about online privacy – to keep America safe.
"We still have an industrial-age government that was organized a century ago," said Jim Lewis, one of CSIS's directors, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. "The DHS has a 1970s-style solution to a 21st century problem."
"The United States must treat cybersecurity as one of the most important national security challenges it faces," the CSIS panel asserts in its report. "This is a strategic issue on par with weapons of mass destruction and global jihad."
To back its claim, the panel cites a litany of cybersecurity breaches that it claims hit sensitive areas in 2007 alone:
read it all..
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83156