Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyber-Defense Plan

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via The New York Times.

[snip]

A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy
and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts
to protect the nation from cyberattack and to prepare for possible
offensive operations against adversaries’ computer networks.

President Obama has said that the new cyberdefense strategy he unveiled
last month will provide protections for personal privacy and civil
liberties. But senior Pentagon and military officials say that Mr.
Obama’s assurances may be challenging to guarantee in practice,
particularly in trying to monitor the thousands of daily attacks on
security systems in the United States that have set off a race to develop
better cyberweapons.

Much of the new military command’s work is expected to be carried out by
the National Security Agency, whose role in intercepting the domestic end
of international calls and e-mail messages after the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks, under secret orders issued by the Bush administration, has already
generated intense controversy.

There is simply no way, the officials say, to effectively conduct computer
operations without entering networks inside the United States, where the
military is prohibited from operating, or traveling electronic paths
through countries that are not themselves American targets.

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More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/us/politics/13cyber.html

- - ferg


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