WASHINGTON The federal government's massive private computer network is trickling toward completion as bureaucrats set up operations centers for various industries to insulate themselves from any major cyber attack launched against the United States.
This is long overdue. But reading the article, it doesn't sound to me like it goes far enough. I can't imagine why defense and government computing is allowed to ever touch the Internet. Public information sites are the only thing that ought to be accessible from the Internet, and they should be carefully isolated from internal networks. If that means government employees can't surf the Web on break, tough toenails.
