Saturday, June 13, 2009

Cyberwar - Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan - Series - NYTimes.com

President Obama has said that the new cyberdefense strategy he unveiled last month will provide protections for personal privacy and civil liberties. But senior Pentagon and military officials say that Mr. Obama’s assurances may be challenging to guarantee in practice, particularly in trying to monitor the thousands of daily attacks on security systems in the United States that have set off a race to develop better cyberweapons.Much of the new military command’s work is expected to be carried out by the National Security Agency, whose role in intercepting the domestic end of international calls and e-mail messages after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, under secret orders issued by the Bush administration, has already generated intense controversy.
Cyberwar - Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan - Series - NYTimes.com

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