The order was issued to forestall the accidental infection of national security computer networks by viruses -- and the intentional removal of classified information.
And, obviously, a great college education also prepares students to succeed in graduate school in medicine, law, engineering, economics, business, public health, government, national security, computer science and countless other fields crucial to our national future.
There were also massive identity thefts of Western consumers by Russian gangs almost certainly in league with their government, not to mention probes and attacks on U.S. national security computers, shielded child pornography and in the physical world illegal drugs and murder of innocents.
Though the federal government's system were not affected nor compromised by this cyberattack, they do establish the rising threat future cyberattacks could pose both to national security and computer systems throughout America.
The official figures don't account for intrusions into commercial computer networks, which are part of an expanding cyber-espionage campaign attributed to China, according to current and former U.S. national security officials and computer-security experts.
He left this information that is so vital to our national security on that unsecure computer, not for hours or days or even months.
Mr. Poindexter, who declined a request for an interview on his new position, became closely involved as a contractor in 1995 on a Darpa development project code-named Genoa intended to give national security managers advanced personal computer networks with access to large databases of relevant information.
And the Obama administration is bringing to light the fact that they believe, and you should too, that one of the biggest security threats to national security is also your computer.
And so, 10 years after its inception, the Department of Homeland Security has decided that it needs to find a better way to stay on top of national security than farming out computer work to contractors.
America's choice of encryption policy has huge consequences for computer security, national security, human rights and civil liberties, and the nation's economic interests, as I've explained in a recent whitepaper.
Chief scientific adviser for national security and Regius professor of computer science, University of Southampton.
