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| Authored by: mcinsand on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 08:59 AM EDT |
| If the potential risk to national security is significant (and I definitely
believe that it is), then we need to look at our acceptable infrastructural
requirements, as well as recommendations to Joe User. To be honest, as with
vehicle construction standards, we really need to start applying Operating
System architectural standards. Again, if our cybersecurity risk is
significant, then permitting the sale of the currently dominant operating system
is equivalent to allowing auto manufacturers to make cars with gas tanks
strapped to the rear bumper.
For the sake of national security, it’s past
time that required layered, modular software systems. Megalithic architectures
make it much, much easier to use weaknesses in one corner to take ownership of
the entire computer. At the very least, we need to criminalize the use of such
software with sensitive information. Granted, I’m taking the ‘we’re nowhere
close to being as rotten as those guys,’ and such a review could be
Tannenbaum’s dream come true (microkernel, anyone?).
Designed-in backdoors
are a problem, too, and we need to make them illegal. This wouldn’t just apply
to Microsoft and Apple, but the FBI, CIA, and other TLA’s would have to use more
traditional methods, rather than cracking peoples’ computers.
Although software
design is not the whole of the problem, our current state makes us sitting ducks
for a skilled attack. If our national security means anything at all, we need
to make our cybersociety less of a target.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 01:15 PM EDT |
More monitoring, more surveillance, criminalize "subversive"
activities such as public gatherings, social/political protests, etc. Automatic
filtering of all online correspondence.
And most important, since its a well known hub of terrorist activity... instant
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| Authored by: globularity on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 12:35 AM EDT |
Having lived through part of the cold war I do not take claims of threats by any
government agency seriously without detailed an independently sourced
corroborating evidence. None of them ever materialized The virus attacks a
decade ago and the DDOS attacks never amounted to much. Even if the net were
rendered unusable for a few days, so what anybody who has lived in the colder
regions would have been snowbound and life goes on. The whole concept of cyber
threat is the latest scheme for under worked security agencies to talk up their
business. Anybody remember all the Y2K hype?
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- Difficult to Say - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 05:27 AM EDT
- A Few Days? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 07:00 PM EDT
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 12:54 AM EDT |
To a specific TLA agency.
More specifically, they need to pay
attention and not be distracted by
the internal moles.
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