Comments on: Cybersecurity lessons from the Civil War

The director of the National Cyber Security Center makes connections between today's online dangers and the insider threats and hacks of American history.

[n3td3v]

What a load of rubbish.

[CmdrRickHunter]

So I read the whole page. Summary: "Espionage is still espionage, the tools have changed." Brilliant. Make it into a PhD! Bekstrom being part of DHS, is completly incapable of understanding the networks he's charged with protecting. "Without elaboration, Beckstrom said: 'Why can't we quarantine computers that are disrupting the Internet?'" We can, and do, on a regular basis, without any trouble at all. Of course, that's an attitude I'd associate with 1998-2001ish thinking. Modern day botnets, P2P, encryption - all of these things make it hard to tell who to quarentine. Can anyone fathom "quarentine" for Storm?

Maybe his obsession with Civil War "networking" is his excuse why his nearly 10 year old methodologies are sufficient for someone in charge of "Safeguarding the Internet"

[jamalystic]

I really don't understand why the first commenter is calling the post a load of rubbish! Cybercrimes are becoming avery thorny issue that needs to be address just like a cvil war. I don't se anything wrong with this post: Unprepared to Fight Worldwide Cyber Crime(http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=593&doc_id=147027&F_src=flftwo)

[benjaminstraight]

You know, this is all about intel on the military side and how it interfaces with technology. Yes, it is all somewhat based the same, but don't compare the sacrifices of that era to people now who sit and surf the web.