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August 6, 2012

NSA Boss Wants More Control Over the ‘Net

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by Tom Simonite, Technology Review

The U.S. Internet’s infrastructure needs to be redesigned to allow the NSA to know instantly when overseas hackers might be attacking public or private infrastructure and computer networks, the agency’s leader, General Keith Alexander, said at the annual Def Con computer hacking conference in Las Vegas. It was a symbolic appearance that he said was motivated by a need to interest the hacker community in helping to make the Internet more secure. Alexander, who is also commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, described the Internet as “at great risk from exploitation, disruption, and destruction.”

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428644/nsa-boss-wants-more-control-over-the-net/

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