Chertoff Pushes Cybersecurity Goals

April 8th, 2008 By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer Chertoff Pushes Cybersecurity Goals (AP)

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff speaks about cybersecurity at the RSA conference in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

(AP) -- Federal cybersecurity officials are trying to develop an early warning system that alerts authorities to incoming computer attacks targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday.



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    "fundamentally a backward-looking architecture" mwaaahahaaa what a moronic gobful of nonsense, a bush appointee if ever there was one.

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