This goes beyond Big Brother, doesn't it?
UK Authorities Accused of Inciting Illegal Protest
"Questions are being asked about the tactics being employed by UK authorities to monitor and control protest groups. Schnews reports on evidence that government IP addresses are posting messages to sites like indymedia, attempting to provoke activists into taking illegal direct action. Evidence has emerged recently that the police consider sex to be a legitimate tool for extracting information from targets, and senior police have been accused of lying to parliament about the deployment of undercover agents at protests."
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/026326.html
January 23, 2011
Federal Government Cybersecurity Progress: Obama Administration Report Card 2009 - Present
National Security Cyberspace Institute - Federal Government Cybersecurity Progress: Obama Administration Report Card 2009-Present
What follows is an "Obama Administration Report Card," whereby we have awarded grades for progress against a number of the recommendations contained in the 60-Day Review, or "Hathaway Report" as it is commonly called. The Hathaway Report contained recommendations broken down into two categories of action plans, designated as Near-Term and Mid-Term, with neither plan being defined in terms of timing or projected dates of completion – perhaps its most glaring shortfall. Now that the administration is over halfway through their elected term, we believe enough time has passed to make it entirely reasonable to expect complete or near-complete implementation of action items described as "near term." We've therefore evaluated the administration's progress against the ten recommendations contained in the Near-Term Action Plan while withholding judgment for now on the additional 14 recommendations in the Mid-Term Action Plan."
[From the report:
Summary: We've awarded decidedly mixed grades to President Obama at the halfway point of his term. It appears we're making progress in cybersecurity on those issues that can be resolved through technological means or by development of agreed-to standards of compliance and performance worked at the mid-management level. However, the keys to sustained progress lie in deciding at the policy level what we want to achieve…with an implementable set of actions containing agreed-to definitions and a prioritized list for action.
I haven't seen the cable companies screaming about this. Perhaps this is not the way most utility providers will operate?
Where High Speed Internet Meets Smart Grid
Advanced internet technologies, energy management and the smart grid are coming together in an unlikely location: a mid-sized city in the South.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, utility EPB hit two milestones in the last two weeks of 2010: It completed the final touches on one of the fastest internet pipelines in the world, and it activated the first automated switches on its electricity network. The combination constitutes the backbone for a Department of Energy–funded smart grid network that’s expected to save the utility and area businesses tens of millions of dollars annually.
The utility will go head-to-head with providers such as Comcast to offer its existing customers an ultrahigh-speed internet connection at a whopping one gigabit per second — more than 200 times faster than the average U.S. download speed. With this, YouTube uploads go from several minutes to seconds. Even in a worldwide context, it’s impressive — tech-savvy South Korea is eying one-gigabit-per-second service by 2012.
EPB is charging as much as $350 a month for the top-speed connections, which could limit internet service to commercial outfits, but all of its 170,000 electricity customers could benefit from the infrastructure. The network will serve as the conduit for 80 billion data points on electricity use per year that could help the utility run more efficiently, reduce outages, and give customers more control over their monthly electricity expenses.
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