US Government Shares Classified Data with Secret Group of Corporate Executives!
President Bush’s Homeland Security Department has been meeting with a group of unnamed private sector executives representing industries including banking, telecommunications and energy.
The classified meetings are known only as Project 12.
“Given the program’s scope and budget, the government should have plenty to share. Over the next seven years, Bush’s cyber initiative will spend as much as $30 billion to create a new monitoring system for all federal networks, a combined project of the DHS, the NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The data-sharing plan would offer information gathered by that massive monitoring system to the private sector in exchange for their own knowledge of cyber intrusions and spyware.” - forbes.com
Yet with all the money that the US is spending on cyber security, the main reason to share data with the private sector is the incredible vulnerabilities existing within the government’s internet. Only last summer hackers seemingly based in China stole untold amounts of e-mail data from the Department of Defense’s servers.
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