NSA chief: Internet 'at great risk,' needs defense system

[IDemo]

General Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency, addressed an audience at the Defcon hacking conference in Las Vegas Friday, saying the Internet needed fundamental defenses against foreign incursion.

It's the first time an NSA official has spoken at the world-famous conference, where the attendees are often engaged in unquestionably illegal activities like attempting to breach the security of government agencies. But General Alexander seemed to regard them as kindred spirits as well as experts.

"Sometimes you guys get a bad rap. From my perspective, what you're doing to figure out vulnerabilities in systems is great," he told the crowd, according to a report from CNET.

But it wasn't all civilities. Alexander said that the Internet as it is today is "at great risk from exploitation, disruption and destruction." Tracking Internet activity is a massive task and even the NSA can't do it without some kind of fundamental access.

http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/nsa-chief-internet-great-risk-needs-defense-system-914174

[rurallib]

1. bet he has a plan

I smell a corporatized internet

[siligut]

2. Makes you wonder

Gotta control the information if you want a totalitarian society.