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The US-Soviet Cyber Cold War

Posted by samzenpus on from the mutually-assured-ddos dept.

Roberto123 writes "A security expert with the NSA says a cyber cold war is being waged that has significant parallels to the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union. Dickie George says the way to fight the cyber cold war is by building security into technology, making it transparent to the end user, continually monitoring networks and updating their security software."

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  1. It's even more boring. by khasim · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From TFA:

    "This is life and death and about our freedom and our way of life," he's not talking about the Soviet Union firing nuclear missiles at the U.S. or infiltrating our government with spies bent on subversion. He's talking about cyber criminals hacking into personal, business or government computers, stealing information, intellectual property and/or money.

    Oh noes!!! The Nigerian scammers are taking our Freedom! Teenagers downloading our movies are stealing our way of life!!!

    How about we focus on the real issues? Why don't the banks have a better means of verifying transactions?

    I'm still more worried about nuclear missiles than I am about whether the newest Harry Potter movie is available on a torrent.

    But that's just me.