Another grave concern is how this system would integrate civilian, military, intelligence and law enforcement components toward this end. But worse yet, the monitoring system itself could be open to security breaches, giving hackers or terrorists access to a one-stop shop for government and corporate electronic information. The National Security Council contends the plan is a necessary measure to ward off potential threats to the nation's vital computer infrastructure. The plan would create Federal Intrusion Detection Network, or FidNet, with the National Infrastructure Protection Center, an interagency task force under the auspices of the FBI, as the central repository. The plan, to be released in final form in September and fully implemented by 2003, resulted from a May 1998 Presidential directive calling for a security review of the federal government's computer systems.
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