Posted on 05/29/2009 12:17:33 PM PDT by Red Steel
In a speech from the White House East Room, President Obama today declared the country's computer and digital networks a "strategic national asset" and said he would personally select a cybersecurity coordinator to spearhead the effort to protect them.
"We're not as prepared as we should be, as a government or as a country," he said, in an effort to bring to the nation's attention what he termed one of the most serious economic and military dangers threatening the country.
He laid out the threat, noting that in the last two years alone, cyber thieves have cost Americans more than $8 billion and that last year worldwide they stole data worth up to $1 trillion. He described how even his own presidential campaign network had been compromised last fall, with hackers gaining access to policy position papers and travel plans.
In a serious attack on the military network last year, he said, several thousand computers were infected by malware, forcing troops to abandon use of thumb drives, changing the way they use computers.
"Protecting this infrastructure will be a national security priority," he said. "We will ensure that these networks are secure, trustworthy and resilient. We will deter, prevent and... defend against attacks and recover quickly from any disruptions or damage."
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Who is going to protect our “cyber-assets” from this would be “CZAR”?
I am sick of all this “czar” sh**. We are NOT russia.
One thing guaranteed — it’ll be someone approved by Soros.
At some point he’ll switch to “grupenfuhrer”, or “commisar”..
The Czar will be protecting people from right wing extremists.
...and suddenly FreeRepublic will find lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit on their doorstep. :-(
Yeah, I wonder if they could manipulate trading numbers?
You and me both! I wish somebody could explain to the self-serving, rapacious, greedy, corrupt and now seemingly boogerglob stupid US Government that it's Russian for Caesar.
“For your own good, we are going to install this “Clipper” chip in your CPU.”
Bet you $10 someone phishes his email account in a week.
“he would personally select a cybersecurity coordinator to spearhead the effort to protect them. “
Ruh Roh!
A “strategic national asset.” Now if that doesn’t sound scary as hell.
We need protection from this f*ckpig president. (F*ckpig is an old colonial word that is not a term of endearment).
Bet that's some kind of computation based on real or perceived copyright infringement.
another czar, how many is that to date? Will this czar be just an inexperienced as the rest of them....nothing but the bottom of the barrel for us, incompetent, clueless, whackjobs. See my tagline..........
LOL. Thanks MGG, hopefully that will prevent me from getting an “article 58” from one of our “Czars.”
We *need* another czar. I seem to recall that the last country that used czars didn’t work out very well.
I think the cyber security office will be a data mining program to identify the non-compliant ones.
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