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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 [...]

Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff: Afraid of Britain, Bin Laden, and The American Boogie Man

Homeland Security Chief scaremonger Michael Chertoff has sounded off on what he believes is America’s biggest vulnerability to terrorism.  This weakness, Chertoff believes, is the American public.
“The great weapon they have is persistence and patience, and the one weakness that we have is the tendency to lose patience and become complacent…
It strikes me as hard [...]