The White House released an announcement today on President Obama’s Cybersecurity National Action Plan. In thousands of not actually bad at all words about cybersecurity, they managed not to say the word “encryption” once
Crypto. Not even once.
As Wired describes it, Obama’s Cybersecurity National Action Plan (or CNAP) is a “long-overdue, comprehensive approach to keeping our country’s digital corridors safe.”
CNAP encompasses a number of measures, which vary by degrees in financial backing and plausibility. Even if all of the proposal’s planks come to pass—it is, after all, a proposal, not a law—it’s less an encouraging glimpse of our ironclad future than it is a reminder of just how insecure our government’s information highways and byways are today. Still, at least the administration is addressing the basics. For the full article click here
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