http://foxnews.com/vtech/101700/nsa_fox.sml [snipped] # # War of the Web # NSA prepares the U.S. for battle online # Tuesday, October 17, 2000 # # The U.S. National Security Agency wants to do battle in cyberspace. # # "Information is now a place," Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden told # a major computer security conference in Baltimore on Monday. "It is # a place where we must ensure American security as surely as land, sea, # air and space." # # And the NSA - the military agency responsible for intercepting # communications worldwide - doesn't just care about defense. # # Ultimately the NSA must become the "security statement" of the U.S. # telecommunications and computer industries, just as he views the Air # Force as the "military statement" of the aviation industry, he said. # "How else does our society develop the tools we need to do what it # is that our agency has been charged to do?"