Tuesday, March 2, 2010

War game reveals U.S. lacks cyber-crisis skills

A war game, sponsored by a nonprofit group and attended by former top-ranking national security officials, laid bare Tuesday that the U.S. government lacks answers to such key questions.

Half an hour into an emergency meeting of a mock National Security Council, the attorney general declared: "We don't have the authority in this nation as a government to quarantine people's cellphones."

The White House cyber coordinator was "shocked" and asserted: "If we don't have the authority, the attorney general ought to find it."

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/AR2010021605762.html?hpid=moreheadlines

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