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THE US CYBER COMMAND AND THE PERFECT CITIZEN PROJECT
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For starters, there's a Wired.com report that claims the NSA has teamed with Homeland Security to get around any legal entanglements, hinting at a justification for spying on U.S. citizens. And a story in The Economist declares a new cyberwar that involves secret cyber-weapons and cyber-armies from Iran, North Korea, and Russia attacking utility companies and the grid. [ link to www.foxnews.com] , the Journal’s Siobhan Gorman reports. The NSA, which has the dual responsibility for eavesdropping on other countries and defending .mil networks, has no authority to order companies to install its spying software, but cooperation can be achieved through a bit of arm-bending, according to the paper. The NSA, part of the Defense Department, is getting around a broad prohibition against the military operating on U.S. soil by pairing with Homeland Security on the program. The move to expand the NSA and government computer-security defenses beyond the government’s own networks is unprecedented, but not unexpected. Nor is the creepy, Orwellian name “Perfect Citizen” unusual, following the trail blazed by the ostensibly defunct Total Information Awareness project. [ link to www.wired.com]
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