"We know how to protect civil liberties." -- John Hamre

[Ken Williams <jkwilli2@unity.ncsu.edu>]

check out the B.S. at the end of the article....

"This has created a new debate over unregulated encryption of private 
communications. He called this a false debate fostered by 'cyber 
libertarians.' Adding 'we know how to protect civil liberties.'"

John Hamre said it...

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Monday April 19, 12:25 pm Eastern Time

Company Press Release

SOURCE: Association of the United States Army

Hamre: Balkans Fighting Called 'First Cyber War'

FALLS CHURCH, Va., April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Defense Department's 
number two civilian described the conflict with Yugoslavia as ``the 
first cyber war we're fighting.''

Speaking April 14 at a symposium on information assurance, John Hamre, 
deputy secretary of defense, said so far the cyber attacks on NATO have 
been ``very incoherent and amateurish.''

He also said the attacks likely were Yugoslav-sponsored but probably not 
conducted by the Serb-controlled government but ``messed up the NATO home 
page.'' Adding, ``It's all directly tied to the war.''

NATO has been conducting an air campaign against Yugoslavia over the 
restoration of political rights in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Ninety 
percent of the pre-campaign population of Kosovo was ethnic Albanian. 
More than half a million Kosovars have fled the province since the 
Serb-controlled government launched a widespred and continuing ``ethnic 
cleansing'' assault on the Albanians.

Hamre said, ``Two years ago we had our first cyber terrorist attack.'' 
Called ``Solar Sunrise,'' it showed hackers that the nation's ``weakest 
link is its electrons'' and ``we're seeing that in spades now.''

Complicating the problem of direct attacks is the availability of so much 
critical information to so many potential adversaries. Real-time satellite 
pictures of different spots of the globe, real-time weather data being 
shown on the Weather Channel were examples he used. ``You have an order of 
battle available on the Internet.''

Inside the Defense Department, a schematic of the chairman of the Joint 
Chiefs of Staff's home was available on the Pentagon's home page until 
recently.

Hamre said the February 1998 attacks focused the Pentagon's attention on 
what it had to do to protect itself.

``Two years ago we didn't have a map of the networks. Now we do. Two years 
ago we didn't know our Web sites. Now we do. One year ago, we didn't have 
firewalls. Today we do. A year ago we wouldn't have real-time information 
on intrusion and detection. Today we do.''

Hamre credited these changes in helping the Pentagon control the spread of 
the Melissa virus in March throughout the department.

``Unfortunately, it's just the foundation.''

The Solar Sunrise attack also changed Congress' willingness to pay for 
increased computer and communications security. ``We're way, way out in 
front of the private sector.''

While this is fine for systems totally under Pentagon control, Hamre said, 
``95 percent of our stuff is in the commercial area.'' This has created a 
new debate over unregulated encryption of private communications. He 
called this a false debate fostered by ``cyber libertarians.'' Adding 
``we know how to protect civil liberties.''

The April 14 symposium was sponsored by the Association of the United 
States Army and its Industry Affairs Directorate and the Association of 
Old Crows in cooperation with the Army's director of information systems, 
command, control, communications and computers. 

SOURCE: Association of the United States Army

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jkwilli2@csc.ncsu.edu 

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