WSJ Blogs is reporting that the Obama administration lifted the veil Tuesday on a highly-secretive set of policies to defend the U.S. from cyber attacks. This Homeland Security program is nicknamed "Einstein":
The current version of the program is widely seen as providing meager protection against attack, but a new version being built will be more robust–largely because it’s rooted in NSA technology. The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails (emphasis added), according to the declassified summary.
Although Einstein was designed to operate on federal networks, cnet reports that the Department of Homeland Security is looking to extend this technology to private sector networks.
And you thought that the Patriot Act was bad! The government will literally be snooping in on every domestic transmission via the internet.
Email? Check. Internet phone? Check. Video chat? Check. Blogs? (gulp) Check.
You can view the summary on the White House web site here.
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