On the recordNovember 12, 2002
I also want to reiterate my thanks to Chairman Boehlert, Ranking Member Hall, the committee staff and my own staff member, Chris Schloesser, for their good work on this. Coincidentally, a few weeks ago I was messing around with my own computer system and I took the hardware firewall off that I have. I also have a software firewall. During a brief 15-minute period, five attacks from outside were recorded. I say that to mention that it is not just government doing its part to provide increased funds, the general public will need to increase their level of security and awareness that if they have permanent on-line connections and as broadband becomes more readily available, the general public has an important role to play because those who wish to do our country harm will try to get to our secure infrastructure through just average citizens' systems and through the network there.
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