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United States Has Cyber Nightmares
http://watchingamerica.com/News/231786/united-states-has-cyber-nightmares/United States Has Cyber Nightmares
El Pais, Spain
By Jose Ignacio Torreblanca
Translated By Brandee McGee/Bilotta
3 February 2014
Edited by Gillian Palmer
There is a job that no one of sound mind would want: that of James R. Clapper, Director of U.S. National Intelligence. He is responsible for coordinating all of the American security and intelligence agencies, collecting all of their analyses regarding risks and threats and informing the president and Congress of which ones pose the greatest risks to the nation in 2014.
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The report covers everything from thematic to geographic questions. If the order that they are presented in seems relevant, and it is, surely it will surprise you to know that to the U.S. intelligence community, cyber security is a bigger problem than the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
It is cyber security that the report opens with, and where it expects challenges to increase throughout 2014. Why? Because of what the report names the convergence of critical tendencies. What does that mean? That the risks of cyber security affect governments, businesses and citizens.
Economic, political and social life is migrating to the Internet at a dramatic rate, which is increasing its vulnerabilities, many of them intertwined, to attacks from governments, economic operators or terrorists. The massive attack South Korea suffered in March of 2013, which took over three television channels and five of the six most important banks and disconnected 30,000 computers, has marked a before and after for two reasons: first, and most obvious, because of its importance; second, because of the impunity with which it was achieved and the difficulty in establishing the geographic origin and its perpetrators.
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The Worldwide Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community" report --> http://blogs.elpais.com/files/clapper.pdf
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United States Has Cyber Nightmares (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Feb 2014
OP
Given that they couldn't keep a sys admin from stealing millions of documents...
MannyGoldstein
Feb 2014
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MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)1. Given that they couldn't keep a sys admin from stealing millions of documents...
the NSA seems uniquely unsuited to protect anything.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)2. They should be.
The dumbfuckery in our information infrastructure policies has been stunning to watch. Critical resources should NOT be put on the web, I don't care how convenient it is. It's not safe.