Eye Current

It wasn’t enough to let Halliburton dominate the rebuilding of war-torn Iraq, but now Microsoft, EMC, and Cisco have joined together to develop a “secure” network to transmit sensitive government data. I guess it seems absurd to think that one of sixty-thousand Microsoft employees could defect and compromise the entire system. Apparently this alliance was formed in order to simplify the data management and security that the government already has implemented. The three companies will create what they call the SISA Alliance, Secure Information Sharing Architecture; it will allow the government to communicate with all of its vendors securely. Each company is bringing its own expertise to the table: Cisco has its network security, EMC has its storage and information life cycle tools, and Microsoft will use it identity management and client, and operating systems. Other smaller vendors are included in the project: Liquid Machines, Inc., Titus Labs, Island Networks Inc. In order to be apart of the SISA Alliance members must go through a certification process and complete SISA training. It was agreed that all the companies would release any technology for the SISA Alliance together. If memory serves me correctly, EMC had gotten into a little trouble with the quality of their “secure” data storage systems; well it was more of a cover up. We all know how well Microsoft’s products work; the words are worn off of my Ctrl, Alt, Delete keys. When you are talking Big Business and their profits vs. American values, I think Halliburton did a fine job showing America what the privatizing of military responsibilities leads to: $9 Billion in war profiteering. I think the Rosenberg’s just RSVP’d...