James Glave's Wired News article at http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/10605.html is nice, especially the quote from Peter Neumann about how this may be a con game by Janet Reno to get more budget. After all, the Feds has been doing computer security for a while, though not with the expertise of the NSA. So if they're so hot, why do they keep getting cracked so badly, and on such critical stuff as payroll data, which in the government is almost certain to include SSNs? There's already a National Computer Security Center - she could ask them for help, rather than starting a competing one.
LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - To combat the threat of cyber attack, Attorney General Janet Reno said Friday a new high-tech crime center will be created under the jurisdiction of the FBI. ... Reno played down the Big Brother aspects of an Internet police force. "We must not and we will not sacrifice any constitutional protections," the attorney general said.
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