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Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet

Hugh Pickens writes "Nextgove reports that Michael Hayden, former director of both the NSA and the CIA, says the United States may seriously want to consider creating a new Internet infrastructure to reduce the threat of cyberattacks and several current federal officials, including U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alexander, also have floated the concept of a '.secure' network for critical services such as financial institutions, sensitive infrastructure, government contractors, and the government itself that would be walled off from the public web. Unlike .com, .xxx and other new domains now proliferating the Internet, .secure would require visitors to use certified credentials for entry and would do away with users' Fourth Amendment rights to privacy. 'I think what Keith is trying to suggest is that we need a more hardened enterprise structure for some activities and we need to go build it,' says Hayden. 'All those people who want to violate their privacy on Facebook — let them continue to play.' Clay Dillow writes that on the existing internet everyone does everything online anonymously, and while that's great for liberties, it's also dangerous when cyber criminals/foreign hackers are roaming the cyber countryside. Under the proposed .secure internet 'you may not be able to go to certain neighborhoods of the Web without showing your papers at a checkpoint — and perhaps subjecting yourself to one of those humiliating electronic pat-downs as well,' writes Dillow. 'Those who want to remain anonymous on the Web can still frolic about in the world of dot-com, but in the dot-secure realm you would have to prove you are you.'"

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  1. Revelation: 13-17 by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: -1, Troll

    King James Bible
    And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

    American King James Version
    And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

    New International Version (©1984)
    so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

    New Living Translation (©2007)
    And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name.

    English Standard Version (©2001)
    so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.

    New American Standard Bible (©1995)
    and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.

    International Standard Version (©2008)
    so that no one may buy or sell unless he has the mark, which is the beast's name or the number of its name.

    GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
    It does this so that no one may buy or sell unless he has the brand, which is the beast's name or the number of its name.

    American Standard Version
    and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.

    Bible in Basic English
    So that no man might be able to do trade but he who has the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.

    Douay-Rheims Bible
    And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

    Darby Bible Translation
    and that no one should be able to buy or sell save he that had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of its name.

    English Revised Version
    and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.

    Webster's Bible Translation
    And that no man might buy or sell, save him that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

    Weymouth New Testament
    in order that no one should be allowed to buy or sell unless he had the mark--either the name of the Wild Beast or the number which his name represents.

    World English Bible
    and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name.

    Young's Literal Translation
    and that no one may be able to buy, or to sell, except he who is having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

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