Obama admin declassifies major cybersecurity plans
Bowing to pressure from activist groups and to the dictates of common sense, the Obama administration has done what the Bush administration wouldn’t and declassified some general information [PDF] about the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), a sweeping program that the Bush White House launched in early 2008 to protect the government and critical civilian networks from cyberattacks. It turns out that, like at least one other effort launched by the Bush administration in the name of national security, the program was too secret for its own good.
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POSTED Tuesday March 9th
