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NSA Director Argues For "Red Button" Autonomy Against Unattributed Cyber-Attacks
An anonymous reader writes U.S. Navy Adm. Michael S. Rogers — director of the National Security Agency and Commander of United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) — has suggested that cyber-attacks can begin and escalate so quickly that USCYBERCOM would need powers to retaliate immediately, without (as it is currently obliged) referring the matter to the United States Strategic Command. In testimony to the "House Armed Services Committee on cyber operations and improving the military's cybersecurity posture" on March 4th, Adm. Rogers argues for "development of defensive options which do not require full attribution to meet the requirements of law and international agreement."
The level of automation required to make that National Security Statist's wet-dream a reality will offer multiple high-value targets to nefarious persons of criminal and warlike intent.
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The NSA has been listening in on the data of everyone it can, and wants the ability to do so without any oversight. Now, it wants to ability to retaliate without oversight? The NSA is one "colorful" leader away from making the transition from power hungry government agency to supervillian organization.
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They already do. Any attack is going to come in via a botnet composed of compromised systems within your own border. You could make those systems more secure, but not without sacrificing the ability to spy on them whenever you want to.
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How about a red button that will result in a spring loaded boxing glove that punches the NSA director in the face when he says something stupid. I think that is a far more pressing and vital need.
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If the Director of the National Security Agency and Commander of United States Cyber Command feels that he needs to have a Red Button too, then perhaps the goals of his command are morphing into the goals of the United States Strategic Command.
If that truly is the case, then there should be a single organization that has the single Red Button for the United States.
Maybe it is time for the United States Cyber Command and the United States Strategic Command to merge into a single entity with One Red Button.