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Article: Botched by bureaucracy; The Defense Department is plodding ahead to shore up network security, but the project faces the same challenges that thwarted a similar initiative before.(Government Activity)
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- Network World
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- August 2, 1999
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It's Nov. 2, 1988. An Internet worm self-replicates through mail programs and takes down 10% of the file servers connected to ARPANet, the precursor to the Internet. It takes more than a year to clean the worm out of networks connected to ARPANet, which includes the U.S. Department of Defense's MILNet.
At the same time, decentralized networks are springing up throughout the Defense Department, and the National Security Agency is getting jittery. If hackers were to penetrate these networks, they could sort through personnel records and equipment purchases to determine troop movements and defense buildups. Moreover, these nonclassified nets touch networks that ...