控制优先:9·11后的美国国家信息安全政策

9.11恐怖袭击事件之后,在全球范围推行军事反恐的同时,美国行政当局对其国家信息安全政策进行了重要的调整。在反恐战争的背景下,加强国家控制信息流动的能力,成为美国政府保障美国国家信息安全的首要选择。这一变化,改变了美国国家信息安全政策制定过程中“开放”与“控制”之间的对比,以积极控制为主要特色的信息安全战略逐渐成形。为了获得更大的心理安全保障,公众愿意付出相当程度的通信自由作为代价。而随着时间的推移,部分政治精英已经开始重新思考是否值得以公民自由为代价来换取国家安全。

A Control Strategy: American National Cyber Security Policy in Post-9·11 World

The Bush administration made significant adjustment to its cyber security policy while launching the war on terror after Sep.2000.The adjustment has changed the balance between two approaches: the open-up approach and the control approach.The public are willing to have some extra limitation on their freedom of information if they can feel safer.But the elite both inside and outside the administration have already rethink whether the new policy is worthwhile.