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posted by martyb on Monday July 08 2019, @11:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the Think-of-the-Children dept.

Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) introduced legislation on Tuesday meant to halt the use of Department of Defense (DOD) computer networks by users for sharing or procuring pornographic images of children.

The End National Defense Network Abuse (END Network Abuse) was introduced in the wake of in[sic] an investigation called "Project Flicker" carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This investigation identified over 5,000 individuals, including many affiliated with DOD, who were subscribed to child porn websites.

The Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative Service subsequently identified hundreds of DOD-affiliated individuals as suspects involved in accessing child pornography, several of whom used government devices to view and share the images.

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/451383-house-bill-aims-to-stop-use-of-pentagon-networks-for-sharing-child

Why does this require a new law?


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @01:35AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @01:35AM (#864804)

    Probably M$ will get a $10B contract to secure the DoD computers via a DNS filter.

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  • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Tuesday July 09 2019, @07:51PM

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Tuesday July 09 2019, @07:51PM (#865123)

    Probably M$ will get a $10B contract...

    Is that a string variable, or are you still using that old Microsoft abbreviation? You know, the one where it was funny because Microsoft was all about the money.

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