Utah's $1.5 billion cyber-security center under way

[midnight]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Security Agency host a joint groundbreaking ceremony for the first Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative (CNCI) Data Center Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, at Camp Williams. Construction of the $1.2 billion Data Center is scheduled to be completed in October 2013.


This project is being sold as a job maker in an area were construction jobs have dwindled from "100,000 in 2008 to about 66,000 today". After this construction phase this data storage facility will employ only 100-200 people...



http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705363940/Utahs-15-billion-cyber-security-center-under-way.html

[Sinistrous]

1. Is its nickname "Colossus"?

I have bad feelings about this center.

[Shining Jack]

2. CNCI

The first C really stand for Creepy.

[saras]

3. Construction jobs have always been temporary

It wouldn't surprise me if ordinary locals don't have the specialized construction skills needed to build the place

and

"this data storage facility will employ only 100-200 people", of whom none have ever posted, or will post, on DU. People with this kind of record on the internet don't get that kind of job.

[midnight]

4. On Jan. 11, 2010 Obama wants to give citizens an internet ID.

The Obama administration is pushing forward with a cybersecurity initiative that would give citizens an Internet ID. That’s sure to trouble some Americans over concerns that the initiative is the equivalent of issuing a national ID card, though U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is quick to reassure that it is not.

During an event at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Locke commented on the Internet ID initiative by saying:

We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities.

Helping to deflect criticism over the initiative being abused by intelligence and law enforcement officials, Obama charged the Commerce Department with the creation of the identity ecosystem. To that end, the Department will create a national program office to do so. The program office will be guided by a document called the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace which the Obama administration is currently in the process of creating. An early version of the document was released last summer and posted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which generated early privacy concerns due to the key role the DHS played in the creation of the policy document.

That feedback contributed to the Obama administration’s decision to tap the Commerce Department with leading the initiative. While the Commerce Department may lead the initiative, the U.S. government would expect the private sector to implement it meaning no government-controlled centralized database would be created. When fully implemented, Americans could choose not to receive a digital ID if they didn’t want one in the same way Internet users today choose not to create a password protected account for some websites.


http://www.geek.com/articles/news/obama-wants-to-issue-an-internet-id-to-u-s-citizens-20110110/

Then they can store all the internet surfing at their new site.....