Digital Reichstag Fire?

Citing the cyber attacks on Sony, President Obama is proposing the creation of a federal cyber attack center.

“We need to develop the same muscle memory in the government response to cyberthreats as we have for terrorist incidents,” Lisa Monaco, White House adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism, said in a speech Tuesday.

President Barack Obama is expected to seek industry support for the effort when he addresses Silicon Valley executives Friday at a cybersecurity and consumer protection summit at Stanford University.

Critics said the federal focus on computer intrusions is long overdue. They said the administration’s response has been uneven and poorly coordinated even as the pace of digital attacks shot up fivefold since 2009.

I agree that Obola, Dems, RINOs, and US gov’t want to control All avenues of communications.
They loath the people’s access to an unrestricted information superhighway, and are threatened by free expression of information that contradicts their power, narrative and plans.

There are some legitimate arguments to be made for a coordinated effort for gov’t to drive IT information security compliance standards in an effort to safeguard Power, Energy, Chemical, Communication, Healthcare and Financial data infrastructure.
Industries have proven over and over that they ignore infosecurity until there is the pain of a costly data breach or they must comply with gov’t InfoSec control standards imposed on them, such as: Sarbanes Oxley, DIACAP, HIPAA/HITECH, NIST 800-53 / 88, etc.
Private industry is sorely lagging in remediating their infosec vulnerability gaps.

That said, I am Very concerned about gov’t “control” of the internet, and their intentions.

As to the story referenced about missing soldiers battle records -
I agree that’s disturbing incompetence on the military’s behalf, and wonder if that was an issue in previous wars, ie: Korean, Vietnam?

Not to put words in your mouth - however, are you suggesting that the gov’t would scrub any data that threatened their power, in an Orwellian Ministry of Truth way?

No, I’m not saying “gov’t would scrub any data.” I was just want people to know that the Army, in the name of “electronic efficiency” disbanded the Adjutant General’s office that had ensured the Army’s records were maintained and safe guarded from 1776 though 1986, when it was disbanded because “computers were the wave of the future and we don’t need paper records any more.” They gave the records management job to the Army Signal Corps, which controlled the development of the Army’s computers, but the Signal guys and gals ignored that they now had to save the Army’s new electronic records.

Although the Army records system had problems during the Vietnam war and in the two decades afterward, it still did preserve and send to the National Archives its records. Do you remember the “Gulf War Syndrome” cases after Operation Desert Storm? the search for records to get information to verify the soldier’s claims and for the Army medics to investigate the causes were NOT there because nearly all of the Brigade and below records were left in theater (aka destroyed) because the Army would not pay to ship them back to the states. When OEF/OIF started, the system still wasn’t fixed and no one in the Army was preserving their records. That is what Mr. Sleeth exposed.

Read these documents that Sleeth got via FOIA:

http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/403775-nara-trip-report

http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/403798-joint-chiefs-white-paper#document/p5/a80951

http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/510007-stewart-paper#document/p2/a80776

Thank you for the clarification and details.
Completely disgraceful that the nation’s military does not care to completely record and preserve battle records and casualty details of the servicemen who are sacrificed and die for this country.
That says a lot about military operation culture of negligent incompetence.
Can’t imagine how seriously dispirited families of deceased soldiers are in finding no battle records exist for their beloved sons.

Interesting that you mention the Adjuvant General’s office preserving military battle records up until 1986.
I consider that year to be about the last time we had trustworthy adults running things, with the exception of Iran-contra misjudgement.
We had a much better security posture then, and gov’t employees knew their place, and what was expected of them.
Thanks again

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