the most painful complaint you can make about the modern military's role in information security is their lack of involvement. On the contrary. Given that the

the most painful complaint you can make about the modern military's role in information security is their lack of involvement. On the contrary. Given that the Internet is the creation of DARPA, indeed, was once called "ARPAnet", they're already up to their eyeballs. And to their credit, they've done an excellent job. I don't have citations handy, but I recall reading over the past year about many supposed "cyber attacks", yet for the most part, we all go about our business and surfing without even noticing that anything was going on. The folks that designed the protocols on which this network runs (everything from ethernet through TCP/IP through DNS) did a phenomenal job. The network just may be the most robust thing ever engineered by man. So perhaps they've already done their job. The front-loaded engineering gave us something that can withstand huge amounts of abuse, and so doesn't require an army (literally) to babysit it.