Meet the man the Department of Defense has put in charge of inventing technology to secure the Internet: Dan Kaufman, a former video game developer turned cyber warrior
The following script is from "DARPA Dan" which aired on 60 Minutes Feb. 8, 2015. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Shachar Bar-On, producer.
The recent cyber invasions of Sony studios and military Twitter feeds highlight how hacking has morphed from a commercial nuisance to a matter of national security. The man the Department of Defense has put in charge of inventing technology to fight this new Internet war is Dan Kaufman. He heads the software innovation division of DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, tasked with maintaining our military technological superiority.
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2 comments:
lmao, everyone ought to know by now the government is the one dong the hacking and tracking!
Arpa and Darpa may have shelled out the research money to the Universities to sponsor their studies which brought us a working internet, but the facts are that it was the Civilian population at those Universities that accomplished the goal.
Hiring experts to develop something for you in no way gives you the brain power, just the results of theirs.
With that in mind, I can say for certain that giving the DOD or any other branch of our government the power to regulate the internet will be the equivalent of giving away our most innovative invention in the last century.
Unless you all want to give this away and kiss it goodbye, I suggest you all do your own Wikipedia research and write very stern letters to your Congressmen to keep hands off the freedoms we have of exchanging information and true news. Choking down our only source of real news and true information violates our First Amendment rights.
We don't need the Feds to "protect" our rights. We already own those rights.The internet might be broken, and has been broken before, but private entrepreneurs have always come up with the proper remedies and will continue to do so without a government to "control" it.
Write, write, write, and when you see one of your reps on the street, say something to them.
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