More Wired hype-garbage. Here's the quote they listed: "We need to develop an early-warning system to monitor cyberspace, identify intrusions and locate the s

More Wired hype-garbage. Here's the quote they listed: "We need to develop an early-warning system to monitor cyberspace, identify intrusions and locate the source of attacks with a trail of evidence that can support diplomatic, military and legal options and we must be able to do this in milliseconds. More specifically, we need to re-engineer the Internet to make attribution, geo-location, intelligence analysis and impact assessment who did it, from where, why and what was the result more manageable. The technologies are already available from public and private sources and can be further developed if we have the will to build them into our systems and to work with our allies and trading partners so they will do the same." 90% of this is done most effectively and cheaply by sniffing the backbone links and having a fast-response ability to filter incoming traffic via router control. Sort of like what any decent NOC does now. Where's the destruction of the open internet? Only in Wired's typically-REM (R.E.M. (n) Rectal Extraction Method) hyperbole do we have a conspiracy story. Classic Slashdot fodder, I don't see what it's doing on HN. No, we're not at war over the Internet right now. But a network-based attack is a fantastic first-wave means of reducing the target's ability -- no different from sending in stealth bombers to knock out radar first. Right now we're in a cold-war variant, arming, defending, and collecting intel on opponents doing the same. (edited for formatting)