The government made this bed, now they need to sleep in it. Strong encryption and authentication would go a long way towords making the net safer. But the NSA wants the market fragmented & weak. (Strong encryption is not a cure-all, nor a replacement for firewalls. But it is a needed part of the infrastructure.) Adam | Copyright 1996 The New York Times Company | | May 23, 1996 | | Report Warns of Security Threats Posed by Computer | Hackers | | By PHILIP SHENON | | [W] ASHINGTON -- Government investigators warned | Wednesday that computer hackers cruising the | Internet posed a serious and growing threat to national | security, with the Pentagon suffering as many as 250,000 | "attacks" on its computers last year. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume