The Department of Homeland Security is hoping to convince technology and telecommunications companies that it's safe to share information about infrastructure vulnerabilities with the federal government. This week, the new department published a set of proposed regulations designed to convince . . .
The Department of Homeland Security is hoping to convince technology and telecommunications companies that it's safe to share information about infrastructure vulnerabilities with the federal government. This week, the new department published a set of proposed regulations designed to convince corporate America to hand over infrastructure information to the government, promising that it will be kept in the strictest confidence.

The proposal sweeps broadly, covering any data submitted to the government about any real or possible attack on "critical infrastructure or protected systems by physical or computer-based attack" or any programming errors, glitches or bugs that could endanger important services like the Internet, utilities or telephone networks.

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