[Am-info] Kudos to Congress

[Fred A. Miller]

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Kudos to Congress

The Senate Commerce Committee has reported out a bill, unanimously,
that implements the only effective defense against worms like the
SQL Worm (above), Code Red and other mass attacks. Senate Bill
2182 requires government agencies to make sure their computers are
configured using best security practices appropriate for their use
(like having a password on every administrator account on SQL Server),
before the systems are connected to the Internet.  The bill implements
for government the techniques used in-house by computer companies like
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, and by many other large organizations
including most large banks.  Extending the practice to all federal
systems and developing benchmarks agencies can use (and extend),
will be an enormous contribution to government Internet safety.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/security/18706-1.html

Note: This is fine, but it DOESN'T go far enough!! In addition, what the=20
Fed. SHOULD MANDATE, is ONLY open source on ALL and ANY Fed. 'puters!!

Fred

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Fred A. Miller
Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
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