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US to set up secret 'Big Brother' surveillancesystem to monitor internet for cyber-attacks

By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:48 PM on 9th July 2010

The US plans to install a Big Brother-style monitoring system on the computer systems of private companies and governmentagencies to prevent cyber-attacks from abroad.

The program, named Perfect Citizen, will rely on sensors that will be deployed in networks running critical infrastructure such as theelectricity grid and nuclear-power plants.

It will be able to detect any attempt by foreign saboteurs to launch a cyber-attack .

But privacy campaigners have reacted furiously, saying that 'mission creep' will make it easy for security forces to effectively spy onnormal citizens.

Inside the control room at a US nuclear power station. US security chiefs fear key infrastructure could be at risk from cyber-attack

U.S. intelligence officials are concerned about Chinese and Russian surveillance of computer systems that control key parts of theU.S. infrastructure.

Today the National Security Agency (NSA) attempted to play down fears that the project will be used to spy on citizens.

The program is 'purely a vulnerabilities-assessment and capabilities-development contract,' Judith Emmel, an NSA spokeswoman.

'This is a research and engineering effort,' she said. 'There is no monitoring activity involved, and no sensors are employed in thisendeavour.'

A US military official have dismissed privacy concerns and claim that intrusion into the private lives of cit izens is no worse than thatfrom speed cameras.

Perfect Citizen is a 'logical extension' of work employed in the past to protect critical infrastructure from sabotage, he said.

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Defence firm Raytheon won a contract for the classified work's initial phase valued at up to $100 million, according to the Wall StreetJournal.

'You've got to instrument the network to know what's going on, so you have situational awareness to take action,' a military sourcetold the paper.

'This contract provides a set of technical solutions that help the National Security Agency better understand the threats to nationalsecurity networks,' Emmel said.

'Any suggestions that there are illegal or invasive domestic activities associated with this contracted effort are simply not true,' Emmelsaid.

'We strictly adhere to both the spirit and the letter of U.S. laws and regulations.'

Earlier this year Google's email service, GMail, came under attack from Chinese hackers trying to access the accounts of humanrights activists in the country.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defence William Lynn said last month that more than 100 intelligence agencies and foreign militaries wereactively trying to penetrate U.S. computer systems.

He said that 'weapons-system blueprints are among the documents that have been compromised.'

The United States must be able to operate freely in cyberspace amid dangers of 'remote sabotage,' General Keith Alexander saidJune 3 in his first public remarks as head of U.S. Cyber Command.

Cyber Command was set up in May to protect U.S. interests in cyberspace.

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My thoughts are that this is only 'smoke and mirrors' to legalize whats going on right now!...last week we had a story about Mr.Obama having the power to shut down the Internet in times of emergency......would a 'cyber attack' count as an emergency

- Richard, Kerikeri. NZ, 09/7/2010 21:56

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Those who would relinquish their freedoms to obtain a little security deserve and shall have neither.....

- Eyes Wide Open, Australia, 09/7/2010 20:57


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the privacy campaigners need to wake up and realise what's feasible in the real world as opposed to their paranoid view of reality!

- J, UK, 09/7/2010 20:47


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Google "Echelon" and you will find that the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and NZ have had the capability to capture FAX, e-mail,phone and all forms of transmitted digital data for many years.Finding the information they want amongst so much chaff has been the defining problem all along.The ability exists already to track us like lab rats, this just adds another analysis tool with one stated laudable purpose but with so


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many other not stated nefarious and questionable uses.I think that I'll swat up on semaphore and smoke signals; but there again the council enviro-jobsworths would put the mockers on thesmoke signals and I'd have to wear a bright orange safety vest, eye protection and helmet for the semaphore.

- Graham, canal boat Masey Doats near Reading, 09/7/2010 20:46


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"Perfect Citizen"? You've got to be kidding me. That's a PERFECT name for a program in mainland China, Indonesia, Iran or similar (and Oz in a year or so).

It sounds like it's right out of the movie Brazil (Terry GIlliam) [or the books 1984 (Orwell), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) and ThisPerfect Day (Ira Levin)--recommended reading]

The name alone is incredibly ominous, not reassuring.

If it is NOT to ensure the compliance of "Citizens", then WHY is it named "Perfect Citizen"? Why not "Perfect Sheriff", or "PerfectProtector" or "Perfect Shield"?

And of course, with a name like that how can it not be "perfect" and be infallible?

- jack, Scottsdale, USA, 09/7/2010 19:53


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I have been involved in clandestine internet "hacktivism" for some years now and:

!. Such persons and groups operate with the tasid approval of the U.S. gov't as long as the abide by all applicable laws.2. T he feds have actually passivly subsidized such efforts when they are in line with gov't interests such as freedom of speech.Example: footage of Irainian cops mowing down college students ended up on Youtube because everyone who could haveintercepted it didn't.

It's a big ugly world out there kids and the U.S. goverment is NOT the worst thing around.

- none given, lulz, 09/7/2010 19:35


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