Tuesday November 08, 2011
Help Wanted:
US Military Need Help Securing Networks
Darpa, the US military research agency responsible for the creation of the Internet, has admitted that it needs more help to secure networks.
Public networks like the Internet are far too porous and vulnerable to attack, so Darpa is soliciting ideas for solutions to the problem.
From Wired:
Because it’s the blue-sky research agency that helped create the internet, Darpa framed the problem as a deep, existential one, not a pedestrian question of insecure code. “It is the makings of novels and poetry from Dickens to Gibran that the best and the worst occupy the same time, that wisdom and foolishness appear in the same age, light and darkness in the same season,” mused Regina Dugan, Darpa’s director. She’s talking about the internet. “These are the timeless words of our existence. We know it is true of everything.”
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