DNI Clapper discusses difficulty of monitoring online threats, hackers
The internet has Director of National Intelligence James Clapper longing for the days of the Cold War.
Clapper noted the threats and actors in cyberspace such as hacktivist collectives, terrorists and nation-states — all with different objectives, “all of them operate on the very same internet,” he said during a keynote presentation Oct. 20 during an event hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance in Washington.
“Sometimes all this makes me long for the … Cold War when the world essentially had two large, mutually exclusive telecommunications networks; one essentially dominated by the United States, and the other … dominated by the Soviet Union and Europe allies.”
Clapper noted that these distinct networks made it so intelligence officials could be “reasonably sure that if we were listening to someone on a Soviet-dominated network, that person was probably not going to be a U.S. citizen. Today, of course, that’s not the case, and it makes our work exponentially harder.”
Clapper noted the threats and actors in cyberspace such as hacktivist collectives, terrorists and nation-states — all with different objectives, “all of them operate on the very same internet,” he said during a keynote presentation Oct. 20 during an event hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance in Washington.
“Sometimes all this makes me long for the … Cold War when the world essentially had two large, mutually exclusive telecommunications networks; one essentially dominated by the United States, and the other … dominated by the Soviet Union and Europe allies.”
Clapper noted that these distinct networks made it so intelligence officials could be “reasonably sure that if we were listening to someone on a Soviet-dominated network, that person was probably not going to be a U.S. citizen. Today, of course, that’s not the case, and it makes our work exponentially harder.”
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