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Title: DARPA's New Tools for Net Defenders, Cyber-Snoops - Noah Shachtman, Wired Blog Post by: Stephen Taylor on August 22, 2007, 04:01:39 AM DARPA's New Tools for Net Defenders, Cyber-Snoops - Noah Shachtman, Wired Blog Network
It’s getting harder and harder for the Pentagon’s cyber defenders to protect military networks – and for federal snoops to peek in on our e-mail. DARPA, the Pentagon’s way-out research arm, has an idea for how to keep up: use the laws of heat flow to monitor network traffic. It's part of a bigger push to make sure net protectors and digital surveillance type can keep up with the rising tide of e-mail, web-surfing, and other online activities. We all know about Moore’s Law – that computer processors will double in strength and speed every 18 months. But network traffic is grows even faster, at nearly double the rate. Every decade, the amount of packets expands a thousand-fold. That’s a major worry for the Pentagon, and its cybersecurity pros. Read More.. (http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/08/we-all-know-abo.html) |