Obama: All Your Cyber are Belong to Us
The AP reports that before a House Armed Services subcommittee, Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, and other military leaders delivered prepared testimonies that described the U.S. military’s cyber capabilities as inadequate and unable to keep pace with external threats.
As you might recall last month, the Pentagon “released” a flood of reports citing cyber-attacks on the U.S. designed to bring cybersecurity to the forefront of national attention. On April 7th, the Pentagon claimed it spent more than $100 million in the last six months responding to cyber attacks. The next day, a story about the U.S. electrical grid being infiltrated by cyberspies was “leaked” to the press. On April 21st, the Pentagon claimed cyberspies hacked into its $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project.
it’s no surprise these testimonies come shortly before the Obama administration will release its review of our nation’s cybersecurity. And, it doesn’t take much imagination to figure out what the review will conclude. Move over right-wing extremists. There’s a new threat on the block and I’m sure it will require all Americans to make sacrifices for the common good. I’m sure Obama will command his Democratic army to move swiftly in passing legislation granting him real ultimate power of the internet at the same time he assures the sleepy American people he really doesn’t want anything to do with the internets.
Yeah we’ve heard this “sacrifice” spiel before… ironic since Obama wasn’t willing to sacrifice his blackberry despite security concerns.
P.S. The legislation has been in the works since the April fools long before the administration began ginning up this crisis.