Last week, the Wall Street Journal’s home page went missing and stock exchange went down. The Department of Homeland Security declared the triple threat was merely a coincidence — random outages that happened to fall on the same day. A coordinated, widespread cyber attack that went far beyond last week’s mini-debacle could be executed at will by any hackers. We need to restructure the Internet so that anonymity is replaced with high-assurance, pervasive identities, says Julian Zelizer. Zelizer: We need agreement on the bare minimum requirements for all Internet transactions.”]
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