FBI's 'human firewall' warns of computer crimes

FBI's 'human firewall' warns of computer crimes

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He's known as the "human firewall."

Massapequa native Shawn Henry is the head of investigating computer crimes for the FBI, and after he was introduced with that informal title, he talked Tuesday of the breadth of the computer-crime problem facing the country and the world at a conference in New York of many of the world's computer experts.

Computer crime is "the most critical threat to our way of life other than weapons of mass destruction

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That is a bold statement, but very true. The number of online crimes, identity thefts, scams, DDOS attacks, etc. has grown exponentially over the past few years. The internet and the world network will be one of the next major battlegrounds.

Here is a snippet from one of the additional news links.

In 2015 we anticipate that the world will almost certainly experience quantum leaps in information technology (IT) and in other areas of science and technology. IT will be the major building block for international commerce and for empowering nonstate actors. Attacks on our military, economic, or telecommunications infrastructure can be launched from anywhere in the world, and they can be used to transport the problems of a distant conflict directly to America's heartland. The number of FBI computer network intrusion cases has doubled during each of the past two years. Foreign or US insiders were responsible for 71 percent of the unauthorized entries into US corporate computer networks reported to an FBI-sponsored survey last year.

And that is just the tip of the iceberg. here are not just hackers out there, there are Hacktivists, industrial spies, organized crime, foreign national governments, etc......all hiring hackers to do their dirty work.

What are your thoughts? Do you think that the Internet age has grown beyond our control, and that no information is safe?





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Who profits from a battleground mentality? I would offer the archaic nation state apparatus.

Bye Bye Internet as we know it.
Internet 2 might be free but it will be slow and censored by the good 'ol FBI. I think that could mean no more ATS, Infowars, etc. they will try to eliminate pretty much any website criticizing the government. These are the last days of being able to get the word out, soon it will be too late and the poor sheeple will have no idea what happened.

reply to post by MetatronCubensis


They could care less about ATS or any other such site. What they're concerned about is the multibillion dollar industry associated with cybercrime. Not to mention the potential for cyrberwarfare which would cripple our infrastructure and way of life. Get over this paranoia of censorship, they wont even take down Jihadi websites let alone sit there and list what's acceptable and what's not.

That sounds ominous, almost like they are looking for a reason to crack down on using all this lovely technology... They won't try to do that will they? BTW, has any one ever actually met one of these terrorist's yet?

reply to post by Now_Then


Yeah they're hanging out at the corner coffee shop advertising their expertise in cybercrime. I think I'll head there later on and meet one.

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Double Post.

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