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Subject:    IP: WHITE HOUSE PROPOSES MASSIVE COMPUTER MONITORING SYSTEM
From:       Robert Hettinga <rah () shipwright ! com>
Date:       1999-07-28 4:07:29
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:51:23 -0400
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From: "L.J.Alberts" <ljalberts@pobox.com>
Subject: IP: WHITE HOUSE PROPOSES MASSIVE COMPUTER MONITORING SYSTEM
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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1999 20:28:41 ET XXXXX

WHITE HOUSE PROPOSES MASSIVE COMPUTER MONITORING SYSTEM; WILL TRACK 
BANKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND OTHER NETWORKS

The Clinton administration has developed a plan for an extensive 
computer monitoring system,
overseen by the FBI, that will track banking, telecommunications and 
other industries, it will
be reported on Wednesday.

The National Security Council is conducting a legal and technical 
review of the new Clinton
plan, a final report is scheduled to be made public in September.

NEW YORK TIMES reporter John Markoff has been shown a draft, 
according to publishing sources,
and was busy on Tuesday afternoon preparing a story.

In some government circles, the proposed system has been nicknamed "Hillary."

The plan calls for the development of a "sophisticated software 
system to monitor activities on
non-military government networks" and a separate system to "track all 
transactions used in the
banking, telecommunications and transportation industries."

The system is intended to alert law enforcement officials to computer 
attacks that might
cripple governmental or the nation's economy. But it could also 
become a massive government
utility used for surveillance of citizens, critics contend, with 
great potential for misuse.

"Law enforcement agencies obviously would be under great temptation 
to expand the use of the
information in pursuit of suspected criminals," the TIMES will report.

The plan has drawn fire from civil libertarians because it blends 
"civilian and military
functions" in protecting the nation's computer networks. Law 
enforcement agencies would be
under great temptation to expand the use of the information in 
pursuit of suspected criminals.
And the plan would put a new and powerful tool into the hands of the FBI.

Developing.

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Reports are moved when circumstances warrant
(c)DRUDGE REPORT 1999
Not for reproduction without permission of the author
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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