Richard A. Clarke: Obama's Challenge in Cyberspace

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-a-clarke/obamas-challenge-in-cyber_b_199926.html?view=print


In the next few days President Obama will decide whether he will live  
up to his campaign promises about dealing seriously with the challenge  
of cyber security by creating a White House office to direct  
government activity and coordinate with the private sector. None of  
the options being served up to him will create the stand alone White  
House office that is needed to provide the leadership on this issue.

The reasons that this decision is important have been spread across  
the media this last month. Among the facts revealed are that foreign  
intelligence services have penetrated the control systems of the US  
electric power grid and have left behind "logic bombs" and "trap  
doors;" data about America's latest fighter aircraft, the F-35  
Lightning II, has been copied off the networks of defense contractors  
and sent overseas; the Pentagon plans to appoint a new four star  
general to run a new Cyber Command based on the National Security  
Agency (NSA); and a National Academy of Sciences blue ribbon panel has  
urged caution about the US engaging in offensive cyber war.



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