Tenet warns of terrorists - says greater regulation of internet needed

[The Straight Story]

"I know that these actions would be controversial in this age where we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability," he added. "But, ultimately, the Wild West must give way to governance and control."

Tenet warns of terrorists combining physical, telecommunications attacks

By Chris Strohm
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Former CIA Director George Tenet on Wednesday said greater government regulation of the Internet and telecommunications networks is needed in order to guard against terrorist attacks.

The U.S. intelligence community needs to consider how terrorists might attempt to couple an attack on telecommunication networks with a physical attack, Tenet said during a keynote speech at the E-Gov Institute's homeland security conference in Washington.

"Efforts at physical security will not be enough, because the thinking enemy that we confront is going to school on our network vulnerabilities as well, and I think the two are inextricably linked," he said. "The number of known potential adversaries conducting research on information attacks is increasing rapidly and includes intelligence services, military organizations and nonstate entities."

According to Tenet "a loose collection of regional networks" now "thrive independently" worldwide by using telecommunications and the Internet to communicate with and learn from each other at almost no cost.


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[skooooo]

1. censorship

[Pithy Cherub]

2. Wow after being ejected from the CIA, with spare time on his hands

he discovers the internets. Now it must be bushbot'controlled'...
Free speech - we know it, when we see it..;)

[robre]

3. This is understandable

Any arena where information may be freely exchanged scares the hell out of statists like Tenet. I love when politicians feign ignorance of a technology to spread misinformation that leads to the technology's regulation.

[Sparkly]

5. That's why people like this hate higher education

Too much free thinking and open exchange of ideas and information.

[newyawker99]

12. Hi robre!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[jimshoes]

4. These people think

they have to control everything. Must be genetic.

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

6. Go slam dunk yourself, George

headfirst into a toilet of Bush's shit...

freedom of speech is what the internet is all about...

[uppityperson]

7. Too easy, go to another internets

They watch what I read, what I buy, what I type, what I eat. Don't they have anything better to do?

[Old and In the Way]

8. Hey, you never know when one of us will fly a webpage into a

building.....

So sad....looks like the terrorists are winning, after all.

[AgadorSparticus]

9. OMG, ROFLMAO!!! i am in stitches!!

this is great...

[NuttyFluffers]

10. i guess he got tired of spending more time with family...

must've ben scanning the porn sites hard to come upon a revelation like this.

ahh, family values. :eyes:

[w4rma]

11. Tenet should go live in China. They seem to have the kind of government

he prefers.

[Guarionex]

13. What's wrong with these guys...

are they not getting laid enough? Was that the problem in high school?

Can we get America's strippers to give all these damned Republicans blowjobs...I mean their crankiness is already hurting the rest of us...

Restricting the Internet....what, like China?