Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring
The article is about the recent directive that was signed by President Bush to expand the intelligence community’s involvement to monitor against computer attacks on government systems. The reason for this intiative is because the increasing attacks to government sytems, particularly from China. The government agencies could have used tighter security standards, as well as standardizing those policies to make weaknesses more consistent and easier to find. However the monitoring of internet traffic causes privacy issues to arise. Allowing a federal department responsible for both communication and intelligence can cause the agencies to use information from both sides to invade privacy of US citizens. I think that many pro-privacy groups will take this negatively as the privacy rights of individuals may be compromised due to the broad nature of the agencies’ roles.