Yikes! SkyNET is coming to life!

[The_Raven_1]

…or maybe not…

But, it’s pretty interesting stuff… Especially the part where the companies want antitrust exemptions if they join the new Fednet.

“So far, many private groups and businesses have been slow to provide vulnerability information to these centers out of fear that it could be made public through Freedom of Information Act laws. They also want to be exempted from antitrust laws if they provide security information to the government.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,82273,00.html

Yeah, yeah… I know it’s “Faux” news… But I haven’t worn a tin-foil hat since I was a little kid.

Interesting too that CERT is slated to be part of the security contingent. There’s a row between them and the new security firm Secunia

SecurityFocus and CERT deliberately “delays and censors the information disclosed on BugTraq and in their vulnerability database,” Secunia alleges.

Conspiracy theories abound in security mailing list launch

This tidbit is from the Register, which some consider the London tab of the tech press, but whatever…

From the same…

The most dramatic case for change came early last week when an anonymous member of a security mailing list posted three unpublished vulnerability advisories. None of the advisories had been released by the authors—or by a third party such as the CERT Coordination Center—who typically handle such announcements. The posts were taken from advance copies of the advisories that CERT had shared with a select group of software vendors, something that has angered CERT officials.

And these guys are gonna be holding onto my identity? Ulp…

-Rav