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Companies won't help national cybersecurity without waivers
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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:31:08 -0500
http://www.startext.net/news/doc/1047/1:COMP56/1:COMP560622100.html Updated: Thursday, Jun. 22, 2000 at 17:48 CDT By Jesse J. Holland Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Corporations insist they won't fully participate in any national cybersecurity efforts unless they get Freedom of Information Act waivers and lawsuit protection. Businesses say they're afraid that if they share private information with the federal government to help fight off hacker attacks, it would be made public with an FOI request and used against them. "Fears of publicity, fears of inviting additional attacks, fears of confidentiality and fears of antitrust liabilities have limited the willingness of industry members to share information," said Daniel Woolley, president of the Global Integrity Corp., an information security company. [...] ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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