The July 1 issue of The Economist has a headline "Cyberwar" with the scary picture below.
Bruce Schneier has a thoughtful response on CNN.com: Threat of 'cyberwar' has been hugely hyped.
I don't want to enter the debate on cyberwar, but we (including the US Government) are certainly not doing everything we could today to improve cyber security. A more secure Internet will save money for everyone and improve our economy.
Calling the Internet the Information Superhighway is a good way to illustrate the benefits of security. If you had to pay a security toll every 10 miles (buying anti-virus/anti-spy-ware/firewall,etc. with an annual renewal) and the toll failed to prevent 10% of traffic from being hijacked, you probably would not drive on that highway, and if you did you would not carry any valuables. That is exactly what we have today with the Internet. This isn't cyberwar - it's crime. Let's address crime first by doing what we can to make the internet more secure.
Don't spend too much on Cyberwar until we do some basic security block and tackling, like deploying DNSSEC.
And speaking of DNSSEC, tomorrow is the day the DNSSEC signed root zone enters production.
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