Ex-NSA Director: We Hide Too Many Hacks

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The United States keeps too many hacks secret, says the former director of the U.S. National Security Agency.

 

In an interview with reporters this week, retired General Michael Hayden explained why he thinks companies and the government are ill-prepared to deal with cyberattacks: They both refuse to acknowledge hacks when they happen.

 

"The government hideously over-classifies it," Hayden said. "And the private sector, for fiduciary reasons, is reluctant to share it."

 

In November, a CNNMoney investigation detailed how Corporate America keeps huge hacks secret. Power plants, dams and other parts of America's backbone hide hundreds of successful hacks from the public each year -- and a little-known federal policy keeps it all under wraps.

 

This secrecy even limits the nation's defenders, because instructors have less material to teach the cybersecurity teams that defend America's energy, water and gas lines.

 

On Tuesday, Hayden told CNNMoney the reluctance to share information between companies and the government prevents America from figuring out how to deal with foreign spies and potentially destructive cyberattacks.

 

"We lack cyber policy," he said. "We don't have shared information on which to begin to base that adult conversation."

 

President Barack Obama recently signed into law information-sharing measure for businesses and government investigators to voluntarily share details about cyberattacks.

 

But the most significant attacks -- the ones on the nation's infrastructure -- remain protected with a veil of secrecy from the American public.

 

 

 

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[straycat19]

Obama is great at creating more laws when they can't enforce the ones on the book now.  Worse fuckin' president since the beginning of homo sapiens.  If you don't believe that then take a look at his executive decision on guns when his hometown has one of the largest gangs with illegal weapons in the nation and have more gang related shooting and deaths than any other city in the nation.  One weekend they had 34 separate shooting events with 16 killed and 82 wounded.  I am talking about the Gangster Disciples in Chicago among others.

[Holmes]

I completely agree and think president obama hes to do alot to gun control the problem is if a parent buys a gun its there responsibly to secure it from a child not the governments.  He signs these cyber security bills like there nothing doesnt have a clue what hes doing Im disappointed.

[I wanna know]

But children may find the hiding place where the parents keep the gun..