The gist of the effort appears to be how employees gain access to the network. The group advocates dropping user-ID and password and replacing with certificate-based login. I think your comment is off the mark. This is about accessing their network as a regular user, not accessing the internet. They are trying to prevent hostile access to their networks and user-ID / passwords are too easily cracked. They want to use their CAC cards (encrypted certificates) for network access. This doesn't appear to include any change for joe/jane user accessing the internet or seeing Gov. web sites (at least the external-facing ones).
Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- A complacent attitude about the technology plans of the new administration opens to door for fear mongers to take over... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/technology/09security.html "Restricting Internet access is one of a series of recommendations that a group of more than 60 government and business computer security specialists will make in a public presentation, "Securing Cyberspace in the 44th Presidency," on Monday. The report has been prepared during the last 18 months under the auspices of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington policy group, after a number of break-ins into government computer systems." This will certainly make it easier for advertisers to track and measure consumer behavior. And easier to nail those bald guys who criminally claim otherwise. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
