White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks

White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks
Ted Bridis, The Associated Press 2005-02-14

The Bush administration is considering making the National Security Agency -- famous for eavesdropping and code breaking -- its "traffic cop" for ambitious plans to share homeland security information across government computer networks, a senior NSA official says.

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White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks 2005-02-15
Anonymous

Such an idea would probably have a positive impact on the national security of the US. Depending on the costs of such a system, massive privacy violations are inevitable.

Instead of becoming an official "traffic cop", why don't the intelligence communities develop/obtain better information fil...

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White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks 2005-02-15
Anonymous

Sounds like the sort of thing Infosec does in Australia:

http://www.dsd.gov.au/infosec/index.html

they provide rules about what types of encryption should be used, test and certify security products, evaluate and certify firewall installations etc....

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White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks 2005-02-16
Anonymous

The key sentence in that report is:

"It would also require significantly more money for the ultra-secret spy agency."

In my view, the correct wording should be:

"It would also allocate significantly more money for the ultra-secret spy agency."

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White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks 2005-02-16
Anonymous

Figures. It makes sense. Who has oversight? Will the oversight committee release public records? Not....

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White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks 2005-02-22
Anonymous

It looks like the Whitehouse is borrowing an old Navy communications responsibility, that of COMSEC. Only expanding it from communications security to computer security....

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