The US-Soviet Cyber Cold War 117
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."
Naw. I understand his job. (Score:4, Informative)
He's propping up his job with whatever rhetoric he can dig up.
zOMG!!! It's like the nukes are coming back! But they're even badder now. We must fears them even moars! Fearz them! It's the only way I'll keep my job!
Instead, just a bit of modification on the side of the banks and we'd have almost no "identify theft" fraud.
But that doesn't happen because the banks don't want the cost of improving their security.
Not when that cost can be dumped onto us (the customers) and the retailers.
Which Soviet Union would that be ? (Score:3, Informative)
Uh, the Soviet Union has been gone for 19 years. I watched the Russian Federation flags go up 26 December 1991.
The Russian Federation is not the USSR. Neither is the PRC.
So, who, exactly is cyber-warring with whom ?