"No wonder, then, that more than 100 countries are developing the ability to use the Web for spying or as a weapon, including China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, ac- cording to estimates by cybersecurity firms and US intelligence."
Wrong answer. Take the sensitive secret stuff off the Internet and put it on a private network. If you don't know how to run a network get another job.
The powers that be don't like us common folks being able to access information and use it to figure out what they are doing to us. This is just one in a series of trial balloons to see how pissed we'll get after they shut off access to websites that don't follow the party line. FreeRepublic is one of the first that will be blocked by the Firewall of Fascism.