"Report: NSA eyed preset strikes in cyberattacks
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency secretly planned a cyberwarfare program that could automatically fire back at cyberattacks from foreign countries without any human involvement, creating the risk of accidentally starting a war, according to a new report based on interviews with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The program, codenamed MonsterMind, would have let the military agency automate the process of "hunting for the beginnings" of a foreign cyberattack, the report said. The software would be constantly on the lookout for digital "traffic patterns" that indicated known or suspected attacks, the report published this week by Wired magazine said.
The report, part of a wide-ranging interview with Snowden in Moscow, described the MonsterMind program as "in the works" and went further than other programs that existed for decades. Without any human involvement, Snowden told the magazine, a counter-attack could be leveled at an innocent party — largely because initial attacks are often routed or diverted through other countries.
The problem of attribution after a cyberattack has long unsettled computer security experts....
Uh-huh. All that money into spying for $ecurity wa$ted then.
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How interesting that the Boston Globe decided another story was not worth covering not worth covering, 'eh?
FYI, most of the hacking attacks are coming from Silicon Valley, with help from the FBI.
It's the $elf-$erving US government that fronts for corporate indu$tries that is the largest hacker on planet earth, even larger than Israel.
