Though it is taking a embarrassing amount of time for our federal government to finally come up with a structured plan and method of operations for dealing with cyber terrorism, we've once again fallen into the pit of possibly sacrificing our citizens privacy in order to provide tighter security for citizens.

One of the many key elements that the proposal outlines is that the present to develop a centralized network operations center that will complement the federal governments cyberspace security center.   It is in this fashion of the government hopes combine resources of both the private sector in the federal government.   These two agencies would act as a liaison to both the federal and private sector groups.   So far so good, the plan and seems to have merit.   But, is right about here that some red flags are raised.

The portion of the initiative where we decide to run off the road, is one recommends that the Department of Justice work with the Census Bureau to develop " better data about the victims of cyber crime and intrusions.   " .   Now let's hold on here second, what data are we going to actually collect here?

Another key point of interest, is the fact that the security vulnerabilities and shortcomings the domain name system and the IP system are still not addressed.   I'm sure this is appointed exasperation further secure professionals as well.

Unfortunately, there's no mention of the federal government using any sort of open source software or even trying to find an alternative to Microsoft products.   This is a shortcomings that once again opens a set to the security flawless of a single source product.

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