http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3409-2003Jan30.html
--- By Brian Krebs washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Friday, January 31, 2003; 12:00 AM The Bush administration is quietly assembling an Internet-wide monitoring center to detect and respond to attacks on vital information systems and key e-commerce sites. The center, which has been in development for the past 15 months, is a key piece of the White House's national cybersecurity strategy and represents a major leap in the federal government's effort to achieve real-time tracking of the Internet's health. (...) The NCS's Greene said the government is taking steps to ensure that the center does not collect personal information from ISPs. He said ISPs can use "software tools" to limit the amount of information transmitted to NCS while still allowing the agency to spot major problems with the Internet, such as denial-of-service attacks and computer viruses capable of crippling government and commercial activity online. (...) Ciao Kai -- WWW: http://kai.iks-jena.de/ GPG-Key: 0x60F3882F / 0x76C65282 ICQ:146714798
