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DARPA is upping its cyber game in order to protect the internet it came up with, increasing its research budget from $120m (£74.6m) to $188m (£117m) for the fiscal year 2012. “DARPA’s role in the creation of the internet means we were party to the intense opportunities it created and share in the intense responsibility of …

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  1. TeeCee Gold badge
    FAIL

    Standards are slipping.

    "...the agency also announced an elite cyber team of experts to combat online threats."

    What, no humungous vat of nutrient solution full of wetwired monkey brains, hooked to the internet and foiling / retaliating against cyber threats in picoseconds?

    Shame on you DARPA......

    1. Mediocrates
      Childcatcher

      Wetwired monkey brains _are_ the internet!

  2. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge
    Boffin

    Keep IT Simple Stupid DARPA..... with Leading AI CodeXSSXXXX

    Dear Regina,

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    You know it makes sense ...... for do you not battle with ignorance in fields which are novel and virtually unknown, and are therefore fully disadvantaged and primed to fail catastrophically at every turn.

  3. Jacqui

    This is an 8 cyber article

    AKA "snout in pork barrel" FUD PR

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Trollface

    So.....

    Al Gore is working on cybersecurity for DARPA now? I guess he finally found and destroyed ManBearPig....

  5. Gordon Fecyk
    WTF?

    DARPA talking about protecting "the internet" (infrastructure) or hosts connected to it?

    Aren't these two very different things? What's DARPA looking to protect?

  6. Oninoshiko
    Boffin

    FINALLY

    "Over the last 20 years, information security software packages have grown from thousands of lines of code to nearly 10 million lines, while malicious software tends to be around 125 lines."

    Someone points out the blatantly obvious. Information security packages are likely a rat's nest of buggy and ill-understood code, whereas malicious software is vary likely bug-free, just based on the average number of bugs per line. As our OSes, servers, security software, and now hypervisors become increasingly complex, both internally and in their interactions with each other we only increase the attack surface.

    (UNIX (including OSX), Linux, and Windows are equally bad in this regard.)

    KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid.

  7. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

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    When that is the case, make sure that the price that you are paid for secrets silence is more than just enough to buy up every candy store and the manufacturing plants and the list of ingredient suppliers, for that is what such powerful control over IT is worth to any who would think it should be exclusive and denied as general knowledge to the masses.

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