The U.S. government is losing the war against hackers

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Executive assistant director of the FBI Shawn Henry, who after more than two decades is preparing to leave the bureau, said in an interview with <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> that <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2012/03/02/chinese-hackers-seized-control-of-nasa-computers/">computer criminals are too talented</a> and current defensive measures are too weak to stop them. “We’re not winning,” he said, claiming that the current public and private approach to fighting off hackers is “unsustainable.” Congress is currently considering two competing bills that are designed to strengthen critical U.S. infrastructures such as power plants and nuclear reactors. Henry believes that companies must make major changes in the way they use computer networks to avoid further damage to national security and the economy, however. He said too many companies don’t recognize the financial and legal risks they are taking by operating <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2012/03/09/anonymous-hackers-leak-norton-antivirus-source-code/">vulnerable networks</a>. “I don’t see how we ever come out of this without changes in technology or changes in behavior, because with the status quo, it’s an unsustainable model,” Henry said. “Unsustainable in that you never get ahead, never become secure, never have a reasonable expectation of privacy or security.”<span id="more-133544"></span>

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