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NSA Chief Wants Internet Partitioned For Government, 'Critical' Industries

Posted by timothy on from the little-cubbies-for-everything dept.

GovTechGuy writes "NSA chief Keith Alexander, also the head of the US Cyber Command, told reporters that he would like to see the creation of a secure zone on the Internet for government and critical private sector industries such as utility companies and the financial sector. Alexander has repeatedly emphasized the dramatic nature of the cyber threat facing American networks and his comments were a further sign that the Pentagon does not think the war against foreign hackers can be won. Alexander denied the military has any role in safeguarding civilian networks currently, but didn't rule out the option in the future."

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  1. Default Gateway by p0p0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just tell all the companies worried about cyber attack to set their gateway as 127.0.0.1 and they'll be perfectly safe.

  2. How about just moving to IPv6? by dbc · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's nobody else there anyway....