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On Thursday, security experts likened a plan by the Clinton Administration to increase the network security of critical pieces of U.S. infrastructure to the moth-balled Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980s -- well-meaning, but far too complex to implement.
With criticism rolling in from all quarters, U.S. government officials on Wednesday backed away from a controversial plan to monitor private-sector networks for hacking activity.
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