Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The U.S. Army Wants To Know What It's Soldiers Are Doing On Their Computers

U.S. Army

Army Wants To Monitor Your Computer Activity -- Army Times

In the wake of the biggest dump of classified information in the history of the Army, the brass is searching for ways to watch what every soldier is doing on his or her Army computer.

The Army wants to look at keystrokes, downloads and Web searches on computers that soldiers use.

Maj. Gen. Steven Smith, chief of the Army Cyber Directorate, said the software was one of his chief priorities, joking that it would take the place of a lower-tech solution: “A guy with a large bat behind every user as they go to search the Internet.”

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My Comment: The Army wants to avoid another Wikileaks intelligence breakdown .... but with everything now being done digital .... I wish them luck.

1 comment:

Orion said...

The Bat would be the only way to go. We have LOST the hacker-wars. They have won. ANY computer that is attached to the Internet, you should simply assume is always being actively browsed by unfriendlies and any and all information on it and being sent through it is being captured.

The standardization on Windows and so many other key pieces of insecure software means any attempt to secure them is a no-go from the start.

The ONLY way we are going to regain control of our networks is to remove them from the Internet. Stand-alone networks and if want to send a file, you physically move it from one network to the other. We need a new paradigm. The old one has failed.

Orion