From [email protected] Wed Dec 17 23:17:14 2003 From: whitakerNeternity.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk ("Russell E. Whitaker") Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1992 13:24:27 +0000

Extracts below

Thursday 11 March

Digital Telephony and Crypto Policy Chair - John Podesta, Podesta and Associates

The increasingly digital nature of telecommunications potentially threatens the ability of law enforcement agencies to intercept them when legally authorized to do so. In addition, the potential widespread use of cryptography may render the ability to intercept a communication moot. This session will examine these issues and the proposals that have been put before Congress by law enforcement agencies to address these perceived problems.

PRESIDENT CLINTON HOSTS CYBER SECURITY MEETING The Cabinet Room, The White House February 15, 2000

Today, President Clinton will host a meeting with senior White House and Cabinet officials and representatives from the Internet and technology communities. In this meeting, the President will lead a discussion on how the public and private sector can work together to provide a secure and reliable Internet. The President will highlight Administration Internet security initiatives including those in the recent $2 billion FY2001 budget request that will help the National Plan for Information Systems Protection. He will also laud new steps that [illegible] taking to address cyber security issues.

Administration officials attending today's meeting include White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, Commerce Secretary William Daley, Attorney General Janet Reno, OSTP Director Neal Lane, OMB Director Jack Lew and NSC Director Sandy Berger.

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:40 -0500 From: The White House Publications-Admin@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov To: [email protected] Subject: 2000-02-15 Press Briefing by John Podesta on Cyber Security

                        THE WHITE HOUSE

                 Office of the Press Secretary

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For Immediate Release February 15, 2000

                       PRESS BRIEFING BY
                  CHIEF OF STAFF JOHN PODESTA; 

MR. PODESTA: Good afternoon. People can join me if they

want. Let me briefly say that I'm going to try to summarize what

happened at the meeting, but I think it was an excellent discussion

today with the President, members of the Cabinet, leaders of the

Internet and e-commerce companies, civil liberties organizations,

security experts, reformed hackers, some academic people. I know that

many of you have been outside and have heard from people who were inside

the meeting. But let me try to briefly summarize what was said and the

dialogue that took place, and try to put it in some order.

The comments went into the following areas: We need to raise

the level of security practice. I think that many of the people in the

room commented on the fact that many tools were out there to deal with

security threats, but many of the tools were not being used. We need to

be more pro-active. One of the participants said that in much of the

software that's shipped, that the default mechanisms are never switched

on for about a third of the software that's shipped by one of the

venders -- so that we need to be more pro-active in getting the tools

out and getting them in use, to practice better hygiene, as many of the

people commented.

      We need to make the government, secondly, a role model.  We're

not doing a good enough job in making sure that the government's own

systems are secure. We need to enhance the security on the government

systems, and make sure that they're not broken into, that the firewalls

are in place, and that we're practicing good security procedures.

Much More Here.

https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/cpunks/cpunks-92-98.zip https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/wh-cybersec.htm https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/jya/wjc-crypto.htm https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/2014/03/big-data-spying.htm