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Who Protects the Internet?

Posted by samzenpus on from the guarding-the-tubes dept.

strikeleader writes "TechCrunch has an article from an interview with General Kevin Chilton, US STRATCOM commander and the head of all military cyber warfare. Who protects us? 'Basically no one. At most, a number of loose confederations of computer scientists and engineers who seek to devise better protocols and practices — unincorporated groups like the Internet Engineering Task Force and the North American Network Operators Group. But the fact remains that no one really owns security online, which leads to gated communities with firewalls — a highly unreliable and wasteful way to try to assure security.'"

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  1. Secure .mil by changing the whole net? by Eganicus · · Score: 1, Funny

    What could possibly go wrong?

  2. Duh! by line-bundle · · Score: 3, Funny

    Al Gore of course. After all it's his baby.

  3. Filling the tubes by amclay · · Score: 2, Funny

    I destroy the interwebz everyday by bittorrenting, and filling the tubes.

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  4. Easy by tuxgeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is an easy one
    Uncle Ted himself, who else understands the internet as well as he
    Although now he may be doing it from his new base in cell #1576 Cell block E

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  5. Our network can b hacked, let's make a new www! by Eganicus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Military Intelligence is truly a ridiculous concept. Anyway, who's playing quake with me on NSA supercomputers tonight?

  6. Solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Easy. Anonymous is the guardian of the internets.

  7. CMR Taco! by mbaGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought that was Slashdot's job ;-)

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    1. Re:CMR Taco! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Nope, 4chan.

  8. Re:Editorialization by INT_QRK · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you meant "mammaries." But, mammaries are indeed becoming increasingly important to our modern military. That's progress.