The activities of any private citizen who visits a "dot-gov" Web site or sends an e-mail to a civilian government employee would be screened....
Under a classified pilot program approved during the Bush administration, NSA data and hardware would be used to protect the networks of some
civilian government agencies. Part of an initiative known as Einstein 3, the plan called for telecommunications companies to route the Internet
traffic of civilian agencies through a monitoring box that would search for and block computer codes designed to penetrate or otherwise compromise
networks.
A retired AT&T communications technician said years ago that the company shunted all Internet traffic — including traffic from peering links
connecting to other Internet backbone providers — to semantic traffic analyzers, installed in a secret room inside the AT&T central office on Folsom
Street in San Francisco? There are similar rooms in Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego, all sucking up internet data.
No other president so far has had the power to shut down the internet. The Rockefeller-Snowe bill, S 778, would grant Obama dictatorial power
declare a so-called “cyber emergency” and pull the plug, or at least cripple networks deemed a threat. The U.S. government is not seriously
worried about Chinese hackers or mischievous kids in Latvia (as Rockefeller cited as a danger) but rather fear free and unfettered speech and activism
on the part of its own citizens.
Additional Source
Pentagon Creates New Arm for Cyberwars ATS Thread
The New Internet G12
www.msnbc.msn.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
[edit on 2-7-2009 by burntheships]
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