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- holycrapitsed, on 01/30/2008, -2/+143Or he could get Counterstrike.
Less expensive, but just as effective as his plan. - Philluminati, on 01/30/2008, -1/+110"After 37,258 cyber attacks against government and private networks last year, President Bush and Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff say they need $6 billion to stop attacks on Wall Street and nuclear power plants."
Here's a tip... all the Virus scanners, Network Analysers, Firewalls, Encrypted protocols or money in the world isn't going to stop "attacks". The number of attacks represent the value of the thing being attacked. It's better to be attacked 100,000 times unsuccessfully than to be attacked once successfully. My point is "attacks" are meaningless in asking for money. They should state the number of known security flaws or attacks which were successful - in order to justify the need for more money. - geekchic, on 01/30/2008, -3/+105I'd rather they spent the money on clamping down on spam - which affects vastly more people than terrorism will ever manage.
- angusm, on 01/30/2008, -3/+89Six billion dollars, huh?
How much did it cost to carry out the September 11th attacks? A few hundred thousand dollars at most. How much have we spent since then on counter-terrorism, "homeland security", invading a couple of countries, defending against "cyber-terrorism" etc? Literally trillions of dollars. The total expenditure has been so huge that, combined with the subprime fiasco, the US economy is starting to show signs of heading for a spectacular collapse.
Even if someone FedEx's us Osama bin Laden's head in time for Valentine's Day, it's hard not to conclude that we have been comprehensively owned. - inactive, on 01/30/2008, -5/+56I'm toast.
- sfacets, on 01/30/2008, -5/+50I wish we had 6B to fight Scientology.
- callinthelaw69, on 01/30/2008, -4/+47***** you Bush. The trillions you used in Iraq weren't enough? *****. You. *****.
- omenmedia, on 01/30/2008, -1/+43More importantly, where is all this money coming from?
- wufoo, on 01/30/2008, -2/+42or herpes. or aids. or a billion other ***** worthy causes that the money would be better spent on.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 01/30/2008, -2/+35Didn't we just see the "alleged" attempt on power plants from web hackers a few days ago.
Wow, what a coincidence that this bill was in the pipeline.
And nobody knows how to lay some pipe better than George Bush. - chase001, on 01/30/2008, -2/+33or lightning.
- dsmx, on 01/30/2008, -0/+30Well technically Osama's plan has worked he has destroyed the USA. Freedom, liberty and justice for all is gone. The economy is destroyed and the armed forces are stuck in the middle east. At least the CIA will stop meddling in foreign affairs for a while now they have no military to back up there threats.
- AndrewDB, on 01/30/2008, -1/+31Six billion.. MORE?! Christ where is all this money going?
- cheeseron, on 01/30/2008, -1/+30or diabetes
- Shakermaker, on 01/30/2008, -0/+27Hey Bush, here's a ***** idea - how about developing a neutral "pre-WW2" attitude, and take that trillions of dollars, pay off the National Debt and turn America into a great nation again?
- VitriolAndAngst, on 01/30/2008, -2/+22No money for mass transit. A REAL GI bill for our troops to go to college for free. Or medicaire for kids.
But there is plenty of money to pay for "bloggers to set the record straight" and to have my Service Provider tracking me down to my house and monitoring all my downloads for something to get me on, because I called Dick Cheney "the consigliere " - dupswapdrop, on 01/30/2008, -4/+24I hear they don't let Bush anywhere near a computer let alone the Internet! Clueless is as clueless does!
- teamparadox, on 01/30/2008, -0/+20Here's a better hint. Dont connect a power plant to the internet period, it doesnt matter what OS it runs if someone wants in bad enough they will find a way in.
- Malevolant, on 01/30/2008, -0/+20Tom?
- stklaw, on 01/30/2008, -0/+20Printing machines.
- mandarin, on 01/30/2008, -3/+22No way dude. 6 billion is just going to the pockets of his cronies.
- slapded, on 01/30/2008, -0/+18I hear theres Terrists on the Internets
- Etchii, on 01/30/2008, -1/+19Bush can not be allowed to put checkpoints in the "tubes"!!
- NoCt1, on 01/30/2008, -1/+19FTA "The president would also like to install government sensors on private company networks."
Ha, Not going to happen. There is no way I would allow "censors" on a network that is owned by the gov. That is not our economy. That is not why we have business. We do not need the gov checking to see if Infosec is doing their job at their work. Plus in a mission critical/Prod environment can you say Choke point if they are wanting to have it go through their box. And Who will support this sensor. If i call up the gov and say your stuff is broken i expect it to be fixed in minutes not days. - Kurono, on 01/30/2008, -0/+18Is there an echo here?
- CTK14A, on 01/30/2008, -1/+17The Cold War ended not with nuclear war or World War III; it ended when the Soviet Union went bankrupt. Perhaps politicians are simply unable to learn from history.
- Jareth86, on 01/30/2008, -2/+17Maher was right; Bush is desperately working to ***** something else up before he leaves office. He tried to ***** up social security, and failed. Then he tried to ***** up Iran and failed. Now he's after the internet.
- CrackaPleeze, on 01/30/2008, -2/+17...a great example of why this money would be better spent on education...
- nitsnipe, on 01/30/2008, -2/+17THIS IS *****
- pinklimoncello, on 01/30/2008, -1/+15THE ANONYMOUS ARE FIGHTING THEM FOR **FREE**
or maybe he wants the 6 bill to give to scientology to fight the anon..hmmmm... - Daggity, on 01/30/2008, -0/+13Sir, I believe you mean nucular.
- rnwen2750, on 01/30/2008, -0/+12Into the pockets of some very "lucky" politicians.
- Chaoticfist, on 01/30/2008, -1/+13At least that would be a worthy cause...
- chase001, on 01/30/2008, -4/+16Bush will spend billions and billions as long as there is a way to funnel it to private companies or launder it to religious groups but suggesting we spend it on education, healthcare or our Nation's infrastructure is absurd.
- CrackaPleeze, on 01/30/2008, -1/+13Yes, but where is it coming from?
- inactive, on 01/30/2008, -1/+13Because the categories on Digg never intersect each other...
- EarlOfLade, on 01/30/2008, -3/+13Really?
But you have no problems wasting them on some ***** up sheik in Saudi Arabia or on Israel. God forbid the money was used on the people of USA, that would be wrong on so many levels, right? Much better to let corporations like Haliburtion and Blackwater get your money, right?
You, sir, is the biggest idiot I have seen today.
- SnuKs, on 01/30/2008, -7/+17I see a lot of homeless people that can use 6 billion...
- MindTrigger, on 01/31/2008, -0/+10The scary thing is, we have seen our civil liberties erode here in the US as a result of the war on terror. Imagine the horrors they will come up with for controlling/monitoring us on the internet with $6B.
- break99, on 01/30/2008, -1/+11"Here's a hint: Don't run a nuclear plant on Microsoft Windows"
I assume you don't know that the inventory of Soviet nuclear weapons in the USA is on a MS SQL Server database. (true BTW) - blate, on 01/30/2008, -0/+9Coming soon- the P47R107 Act
- noname500, on 01/30/2008, -3/+12More like where is it coming from...
- dice4death, on 01/30/2008, -0/+9Money must be the only thing that doesn't clog the toilet, seeing as money is flushed so frequently and in such amounts.
- TypeEE, on 01/30/2008, -1/+10it'll cost you 100x less if you just focus on securing your network. $6billion my ass
- quarando, on 01/30/2008, -1/+10I believe it is pronounced Internets.
- Webjunkie, on 01/30/2008, -0/+9Will we be able to use IDDQD against Bush's Cyber-Freedom Force?
- HalBSure, on 01/30/2008, -0/+9If you get that 4 billion, can I have a job?
I don't know anything about hacking or anti-hacking, which means I'm an ideal government employee. Also, I'm gonna need Monday off. - JuStein, on 01/30/2008, -3/+12Dugg for submitters description.
LOL. - Malevolant, on 01/30/2008, -1/+96 billion seems extremely excessive. FTA the details of his plan seems to be lacking, so until he ponies up what's involved, there should be no approval period. Too many hypotheticals at work here just to throw another 6 billion away. Shows us your cards or drop it. Pretty easy and the onus is on him.
- LupeFiasco, on 01/30/2008, -4/+126 billion more to line the pockets of bush's pals.
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