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Title: Congressional News Release, February 26, 1987
Identifier: camh-dob-011163
Creator: United States. Congress. House
Topic: Computers, Computer security
Dates: 1987-02-26
1987-02-26
Box: 2007-255-620
Folder: file 8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A Congressional press release announcing that the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Donald C. Lathan, Chairman of the National Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee, denied that a security plan would restrict public access to unclassified information. Brooks considers the Computer Security Act 1987 in response.

Title: Statement on H.R. 145- Computer Security Act of 1987, February 26, 1987
Identifier: camh-dob-011162
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Computers, Computer security
Dates: 1987-02-26
1987-02-26
Box: 2007-255-620
Folder: file 8
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A Congressional press release noting that the world has entered the Information Age, a similar rapid development in technology as experienced with the Industrial Revolution. The announcement discusses the Computer Security Act of 1987, which authorized the National Bureau of Standards to establish programs to improve computer security practices throughout the federal government, and warns that the expansion of military influence on society, and implementation of various forms of censorship is dangerous and control must be kept within civilian control.