Comments on: The Cold War moves to cyberspace

There are battles being waged online between the U.S., China, and Russia.

[monkeyfun14]

Disconnect your **** from the internet problem solved..

What reason is there for a air traffic controller to be connected to the public internet and not a private network.

[monkeyfun14]

Disconnect your **** from the internet problem solved..

What reason is there for a air traffic controller to be connected to the public internet and not a private network.

[ktswami]

Did you ask any of those "security consultants", Charles, whether the DOD has finally added network passwords to their IT policy checklist yet...?

I'm asking because the obviously, innocent Scottish programmer, Gary McKinnon, accessed open US military computers and networks that had NO admin passwords assigned. (Or really HIGH-security passwords such as, "password.") Apparently, spending money on the US military than the next 48 countries PUT TOGETHER, can't get us competent network administrators...

And, he was only looking for UFO info and photos, anyway.....oooohhhh, BIG national security threat. (Especially since the UK military has just declassified their own UFO info.)

[ewalsh69]

Its right out of Battle Star Galactica, No networks, Dis-connect-works!
Military built Arpnet, why not do it again, completely separate from Public Internet

[shootthecops]

private, secure networks duh. fire these bozo's who cant figure that out

[n3td3v]

Propaganda for RSA Conference.

[Joetwopointoh]

It was moronic to start utilizing publicly available bandwidth for anything of a sensitive nature in the first place. Doubly so to continue the practice. It wasn't that long ago there were intelligent enough people in charge who understood the justification for the expense of moving corporate, government and otherwise essential data via completely antonymous means.

Then everyone got greedy, cheap and just plain stupid.

[Joetwopointoh]

Should have read autonomous (too quickly clicked the wrong word in spell check) but come to think of it, antonymous works too!

What's the reasoning behind configuring blogs so that people are allowed to comment but not edit/delete said posts?

[Jjesse285]

Well it just show us that there are some evil people's out there, to much time on he brain!

[Fire Balls]

There is nothing that is completely secure... yes I know that thought is kind of scary but it's true. The only thing you can do it make it difficult enough that they will go somewhere else..or in this case build enough layers so that you can see them trying to get in and block them as they are doing it. I don't care what it is.. it can be hacked.

[aaasolanki]

How about putting your defense network & data on a mainframe rather than the 'other stuff'?
I heard that Big Blue machines are almost impossible to hack into, even though you need to pay through your nose to afford (and maintain) one and have to live without the eye-candy (and user friendliness) of the modern day web. :-)