A panel of experts met recently to have a debate on cyber war, that led to a discussion of the degree to which the government uses information security as an excuse to control the Internet and data that swirls around it. Appointing the head of the NSA to be a high level cyber security czar has only fueled this concern among privacy experts.
Do you think the federal government should apply all of their controls at the edges of the national borders as a means to manage cyber threats? To what degree do financial institutions and other organizations involved in large scale use of the Internet to conduct business responsible for protecting their own assets and what is the role of the federal government in that issue? Tell us what you think.