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Survey of Cyberpreparedness By State and Local Governments

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Press release: “The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), which represents the chief information officers (CIOs) of the states, and the Metropolitan Information Exchange (MIX), an association of county and municipal CIOs, have released findings from a pair of surveys of state and local government cybersecurity preparedness.”

  • Survey Findings (7 pages, PDF)
  • Survey Appendix (22 pages, PDF)

    • From the Democratic Staff of the House Homeland Security Committee, “an analysis which outlines several cybersecurity gaps the Department of Homeland Security has failed to address,” Falling Short in Securing Cyberspace on the State and Local Level (10 pages, PDF).

    Surveillance Increasingly Woven Into Fabric of Online World

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    This New York Times essay, A Growing Web of Watchers Builds a Surveillance Society, by David Shenk, offers especially cautionary insight in light of the growing public and political response to revelations about the government’s domestic surveillance program. After Subpoenas, Internet Searches Give Some Pause Survey finds solid opposition to release of Google data to… Continue Reading

    NSA Faces Significant Challenge in Declassification of Millions of Documents

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    Via FAS: “The National Security Agency has 46 million pages of historically valuable classified records more than 25 years old that are subject to automatic declassification by the end of December 2006, according to a new NSA declassification plan….A copy of the new NSA declassification plan was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by… Continue Reading

    Study Finds Internet Expands Social Contacts

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    Press release: “The internet and email expand and strengthen the social ties that people maintain in the offline world, according to a new report released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. One major payoff comes when people use the internet to press their social networks into action as they face major challenges.… Continue Reading

    Judiciary Chair Sends Questions to AG On Domestic Spying

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    In advance of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the NSA’s Surveillance Authority, February 6, 2006, the Committee’s Republican Chairman, Arlen Specter, sent a letter on January 24, 2006, to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, listing 15 questions for which he expected detailed responses. The following questions are in the… Continue Reading