Congress will be placed under escalating pressure to pass new laws governing information technology, especially with the increased attention being devoted to the design and development of the National Information Infrastructure.
Predictor: Hoffman, Lance
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 research article on cryptography policy, authors Lance Hoffman, Anne Huybrechts, Ali Faraz and Steven Heckler write: ”Congress will be placed under escalating pressure to pass new laws governing information technology, especially with the increased attention being devoted to the design and development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII).”
Biography:Lance Hoffman, a professor at George Washington University, was a security expert and the author of the 1994 National Science Foundation paper “Civilizing Cyberspace: Priority Policy Issues in a National Information Infrastructure” in addition to many other research pieces in the 1990s. He wrote the book “Rogue Programs: Viruses, Worms and Trojan Horses” (Van Nostrand Rheinhold, 1990). (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Government
Name of publication: Communications of the ACM
Title, headline, chapter name: Cryptography Policy
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web4.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/833/751/34311839w4/purl=rc2_EAIM_1_Cryptography+Policy___09/1994______________________________________________________&dyn=sig!2?sw_aep=ncliveec
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