p2pnet.net News - If the Net is the Wild West, it’s time the sheriff road into town.

That’s the essence of comments from ex-CIA Director George J. Tenet.

Access to networks like the World Wide Web might need to be limited to those who can show they take security seriously, United Press International quotes him as saying.

Calling for new security measures to guard against attacks on the US, “I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability,” he told an information-technology security conference in Washington, “but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and control.”

He singled the Net out as a potential back door through which terrorists “and other enemies of the United States” could attack, “even though great strides have been made in securing the physical infrastructure,” says UPI.

Tenet called for industry to lead the way by “establishing and enforcing” security standards. Products need to be delivered to government and private-sector customers “with a new level of security and risk management already built in.”

The national press, including UPI, were excluded from yesterday’s event, at Mr. Tenet’s request, organizers said.

Tenet’s observations will be music to the ears of the entertainment industry.

Expect to see more media references to p2p and ‘threats to the US’ via its economy, as represented by the Big Four record label cartel and seven major studios.

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See:-
need to be limited – Tenet calls for Internet security, United Press International, December 2, 2004

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