enforcing ignorance by the governent by way of the hands of hackers now are we?
funny how the west looks down their nose at china and russia doing the same thing, yet when the US does it it's somehow patriotic.
as for the hackers claim... he can keep dreaming... arrogant techno-geek... if it was possible or even likely to occur the chinese or the US military would have done it long before now... esspecially as the bigger the internet network become the harder it will be to shut it down... at least barring the use of a dozen or more nukes used as EMP, and whatever country did that would be reduced to a crater, likely a radioactive crater. i'm sure he could do a fair bit of damage or steal a fair bit of information but the ability to bring down the internet on a whim is every black hats biggest wet dream (white hats would never even talk about bringing down the internet in the first place, and black hats are the malicious hackers that really ought not to be allowed on internet in the first place esspeciall given their stated intrest which is akin to saying you can bring down every major country in 30 minute, which is nothing short of a idle threat of terrorism [cyber terrorism in this case], hackers like kevin mitnick are saints campared to the hackers the militaries of the world enlist)... but at the end of the day that all it is... a dream... the ability to bring down the internet mean nothing, you don't also haver the ability to get it back, which even if in theory he could bring the whole thing down, he wouldn't be able to get it back up, it would have to be rebuilt line by line like it has been since internet was implemented in 1969 as a response to the soviets having space based capabilities before they did.
After WikiLeaks passed some 77,000 mostly-classified Defense Department documents to three major international publications, the mood at the Pentagon changed. There had until that point been a push from Defense Secretary Gates to make more documents available to enlisted men and women at all levels, under the theory that the more information one has, the better one can do a job.
But the WikiLeaks debacle alerted the Pentagon that perhaps this strategy was not the smartest. A solution was needed–a way to allow the military to have as much information as possible without allowing it to be swiped by someone wanting a story.
So the Pentagon did what any top governmental organization would do: They asked Darpa.
Interestingly, Darpa’s solution (as difficult as it sounds) is headed by none other than Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a famous former hacker who, as Wired notes, once claimed he and his crew could “shut down the Internet in 30 minutes.” (This, we should note, was well before Zatko was on the government’s payroll.)
The solution, proposed by Zatko and his team, is a sophisticated monitoring system called CINDER (which, somehow, stands for Cyber Insider Threat). Though it has yet to be built, the plan is that CINDER will be equipped with complex algorithms to detect unusual behavior from those on the network.
Of course, that kind of system necessarily lands on tons of false positives, which is why the software is designed to look not for perpetrators, but plans. Perpetrators can be caught later; the more pressing problem is halting whatever plan has been hatched. To that end, CINDER researchers will “make use of logs and accounting information that tracks allowed activities rather than depending entirely on alerts from monitoring systems focused on anomalous or disallowed activities.”
CINDER is years off, but Secretary Gates seems bullish on the project, mentioning the project implicitly in a speech in July.
