US defences under daily attack from cyberspace

[mea culpa <jericho () DIMENSIONAL COM>]

From: William Knowles <erehwon () kizmiaz dis org>

http://www.smh.com.au/news/9911/04/pageone/pageone14.html

DISTANT forests dominate the view from the eighth-floor director's suite
at the National Security Agency (NSA), America's largest intelligence
agency. But the talk inside is of a more troubling horizon: cyberspace.

"Think of it as a physical domain, like land, sea and air," said
Lieutenant-General Michael Hayden of the Air Force in his first interview
since taking the NSA's helm in May. "Now think of America conducting
operations in that new domain."  These days many in the United States
intelligence, law enforcement and national security community are thinking
of little else.

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