AFCYBER: America’s Answer To Pesky Hackers

AFCYBER: America’s Answer To Pesky Hackers April 5, 2008 — 02:35 PM PDT — by Paul Glazowski

Ever heard the story of how the Internet’s origin was as a project for the US military? Yeah, well, that one’s got quite a bit of truth to it. Why bring it up now? Well, it seems to be particularly pertinent today, as Jon Stokes of Ars Technica highlights an interview conducted by Foreign Policy magazine with “former US cybersecurity czar Richard Clark” (yeah, that Richard Clarke) about our global network of tubes and some of the unnatural stuff that happens deep inside them.

Cyber-warfare is very much a concern of US government, according to Clarke and his…

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