Wow, just when you though big government was someone else's problem

Sat Apr 4 09:03:49 UTC 2009

This comes from Lauren Weinstein's list and it's worth a read.
It's a bill introduced into legislation, who knows where and when
and if it will become law but, wow.

http://lauren.vortex.com/Cyber-S-2009.pdf

I'll just give you a teaser:

SEC. 9. SECURE DOMAIN NAME ADDRESSING SYSTEM.
3   (a) INGENERAL.—Within 3 years after the date of
4   enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of Com-
5   merce for Communications and Information shall develop
6   a strategy to implement a secure domain name addressing
7   system. The Assistant Secretary shall publish notice of the
8   system requirements in the Federal Register together with
9   an implementation schedule for Federal agencies and in-
10 formation systems or networks designated by the Presi-
11 dent, or the President’s designee, as critical infrastructure
12 information systems or networks.
13

Other pearls of wisdom:  the government will license all "cyber"  
security
folks and you don't work on government or "any network deemed by
the president to be critical infrastructure" without one.

If only we knew:  to achieve a secure DNS all you need to do is
publish a notice in the Federal Register.

jy