FC: White House prepares cybersecurity report (anyone got a copy?)

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

It seems worthwhile to publicize this draft report, scheduled to be 
released on Sept. 18. But after these two articles appeared, the White 
House has become very tight-lipped about what's in it. So if you have a 
copy of the draft, please send it along, anonymity guaranteed. My PGP key 
is here:
http://www.mccullagh.org/about/pgp.txt

Thanks,
Declan

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59168-2002Sep9.html

   By Ariana Eunjung Cha
   Washington Post Staff Writer
   Tuesday, September 10, 2002; Page A04

   As the White House moves to finalize a national plan to better secure
   cyberspace, high-tech firms and other companies are continuing a
   furious campaign to have some recommendations struck from the
   document.

   The administration no longer plans to recommend that Internet service
   providers such as America Online, MSN and EarthLink bundle firewall
   and other security technology with their software. Instead, it will
   ask ISPs to "make it easier" for home users to get access to such
   protections.

   It also does not plan to recommend that a privacy czar be appointed to
   oversee how companies make use of their customers' personal
   information, according to several people involved in drafting the
   document.

   [...]


http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,484669,00.asp

   Bush to Call for Fed NOC
   By Caron Carlson and Dennis Fisher

   The Bush administration has plans to create a centralized facility for
   collecting and examining security-related e-mail and data traffic and
   will push private network operators to expand their data-gathering
   initiatives, according to an unreleased draft of the plan.

   The proposed cyber-security Network Operations Center is included in a
   draft of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, which was
   developed by the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board
   and is due for release Sept. 18.

   [...]




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