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SECRETARY DALEYThis is the first time in American history that we in the federal government, alone, cannot protect our infrastructure develop a national plan to defend America's cyberspace.  what we in the federal government can do to protect our federal assets. ..... About eight universities are developing curriculums in cybersecurity. One of them is James Madison University, and it is a pleasure to introduce Lin Rose, the President of James Madison.

MR. ROSE: . In short Eight institutions, designated by the National Security Agency as centers of excellence in information security education, have been working with the administration over the last 18 months to examine methods for expanding informations security education..

MR. CLARKE: .. This is a research organization , it's a funding mechanism so that the federal government can match private sector funds and plug the holes in the R&D requirements. R&D will rise the President's plan from $461 million last year to $621 million in the year 2001.  MR. PODESTA: ; it's the electric power grid, it's the other things that we learned so much about during our run-up to Y2K. The banking, financial industry -- increasingly every single sector of the economy is tied in, linked through e-commerce, through the use of computer technology, to this kind of critical infrastructure which has developed over the course of the '70s, '80s and '90s.  MR. CLARKE:  power grid and railroads and whatnot, telecommunications, are computer-controlled networks. And many of the same principles of finding vulnerabilities and hacking your way into a website are applied in hacking your way into a computer-controlled network. 

/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/ 01/07 12:57 Copyright 2000, U.S. Newswire

-- John Whitley (jwhitley@inforamp.net), January 08, 2000 Answers NOT good news...With the NSA coordinating the effort, expect Backdoors in EVERYTHING!!

-- ~~~~ (Losing it @ Lost it .com), January 08, 2000.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 08, 2000

Answers

So, the beginning of the Cyber Army is here. Cyber-Draft, anyone? How do you burn a digital draft card.

"Hell, no. we won't code"

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), January 08, 2000.

Sounds like they actually learned something ... a lot from TB2K too ...

-- career search (NSA@eenie.meenie), January 08, 2000.

LOL, the full text said something about a year mandatory service. Did you say "draft"? heh.

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 08, 2000.

Shoot Hokie, I'll sign up. I'd like to have those courses. I'd do a year of service for those special classes. What's another year?

Honestly though, security is a BIG issue. I don't like the people at Fort Meade (and once I was one of them) or in Arlington or down DIA way BUT they do provide a service we need done.

Now if we can just get them to stop providing the services we dont want done... )

-- Michael Erskine (Osiris@urbanna.net), January 09, 2000.

The Defense Intel "Our job is so secret, we don't even know what it is we are doing!" Agency.

Don't EVEN get me started on the others ... LoL

-- hiding in plain (sight@edge of.nowhere), January 09, 2000.