[iwar] * U.S. Spy Chief: Cyberspace Is Potential Battlefield (fwd)
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Subject: [iwar] * U.S. Spy Chief: Cyberspace Is Potential Battlefield (fwd)
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Monday October 16 2:52 PM ET
U.S. Spy Chief: Cyberspace Is Potential Battlefield
By Jim Wolf
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The head of the super-secret U.S. National Security=
Agency (NSA) said on Monday that cyberspace had become as important a=
potential battlefield as any other and held out the prospect of attacking=
there as well as defending.
``Information is now a place,'' Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden told a=
major computer security conference here. ``It is a place where we must=
ensure American security as surely as ... and, sea, air and space.''
He cited moves to define the ``legal structure into which we must fit''=
before offensive ``information operations'' -- cyberattacks -- were=
officially added to the arsenal that U.S. commanders can use against a=
foe. The NSA is the Defense Department arm that intercepts communications=
worldwide.
The world of information ``has taken on a dimension within which we will=
conduct operations to ensure American security,'' Hayden said, adding that=
the NSA had not been authorized to do ''that attack thing,'' or go on the=
offensive in cyberspace.
``But as the United States government begins to think about what it should=
or wants to do when it is under attack, it raises a really interesting=
question that we all have to work through in the context of our overall=
democracy,'' he said.
A year ago Army Gen. Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,=
disclosed that the United States tried to mount electronic attacks on=
Serbian computer networks during the NATO air campaign over the province=
of Kosovo.
``We only used our capability to a very limited degree,'' Shelton told=
reporters at the time.
Hayden said a key challenge to the NSA today was to protect U.S.=
telecommunications in a world where the adversaries might be=
``cyberterrorists, a malicious hacker or even a non-malicious hacker.''
``All can cause great harm'' to the networked systems that tie the=
industrialized world together, he told the conference co-sponsored by the=
NSA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an arm of the=
Commerce Department. Hayden said the NSA, the Pentagon's code-making and=
code-breaking agency, was committed to developing its partnerships with=
industry to boost computer network security.
``We've done pioneering work to better protect e-commerce'' as well as to=
develop biometrics, ways in which computers authenticate identities from=
unique traits such as fingerprints, iris scans and voice recognition, he=
said.
Ultimately the NSA must become the ``security statement'' of the U.S.=
telecommunications and computer industries, just as he views the Air Force=
as the ``military statement'' of the aviation industry, he said.
``How else does our society develop the tools we need to do what it is that=
our agency has been charged to do?'' he asked. The NSA designs codes to=
protect the integrity of U.S. information systems and searches for=
weaknesses in foes' systems and codes.
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