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Building a Bigger Beast, Presidential Order Links Cybersecurity Program to NSA

Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has dropped the bomb.At a speech to hundreds of security professionals Wednesday, Chertoff declared that the federal government has created a cyber security “Mahattan Project,” referencing the 1941-1946 project led by the Army Corps of Engineers to develop American’s first atomic bomb.
According to Wired’s Ryan Singel, Chertoff gave few [...]