3 posts and columns on Michael Chertoff

Chertoff: Internet Kill Switch Would Be "Troubling"

in News on February 17, 2011 at 1:51 pm PT

If Senators Joe Lieberman (I, Conn.) and Susan Collins (R, Maine) have their way, the President of the United States would have the authority to shut down the Internet in the country in the event of a cyber-attack or cyber-war–in other words, have access to an “Internet kill switch.”

Battling the Cyber Warmongers

in News on May 10, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

A recent simulation of a devastating cyberattack on America was crying for a Bruce Willis lead: A series of mysterious attacks–probably sanctioned by China but traced to servers in the Russian city of Irkutsk–crippled much of the national infrastructure, including air traffic, financial markets and even basic email. If this was not bad enough, an unrelated electricity outage took down whatever remained of the already unplugged East Coast.