Former National Security Boss: Bush Admin Leaves Holes in Cyberspace - Lisa Vaas, eWeek
Richard Clarke remembers standing in the Oval Office and handing President George W. Bush a letter regarding what the nation should do to secure cyberspace. "I think he signed it. I don't think he read it. I don't think he knows what it was," Clarke said during his keynote here at the Black Hat security conference on Aug. 1.... Within the coming 20 years, Clarke said, our soldiers will enter the battlefield with multiple IP addresses. The Pentagon is already working toward what Clarke called net-centric warfare, part of which will be exoskeleton armor covered with interior and exterior sensors. These exoskeletons will allow soldiers to literally have eyes in the back of their heads, to see around corners as robots fly ahead and beam back images to their visors, to lift weights at 5 to 10 times their normal capability due to exoskeletal servo-motors, and have their health monitored and their illness or fatigue medicated—again, automatically through the exoskeltal suit. The Pentagon's vision of net-centric warfare relies on IP addresses, lots of them. It's why the Pentagon is the only part of government now pushing for the next-generation Internet, IPv6, with its vast capacity for IP addresses, Clarke said.
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