Tenet calls for Internet security
Former CIA Director George J. Tenet yesterday called for new security measures to guard against attacks on the United States that use the Internet, which he called “a potential Achilles’ heel.”
“I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability,” he told an information-technology security conference in Washington, “but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and control.”
Note to Tenet: It’s the very lack of “governance and control” that is the Internet’s greatest defence. I hope Porter Goss has a better understanding of the concept. If he doesn’t, I’m quite willing to explain it to him, in detail. (And, yes, I do have contacts that could get me a hearing.)
Hat tip to Screaming Memes, the only site I know of that rivals Protein Wisdom for just-plain-weirdness.
(And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Jeff were involved in both.)
