German industry and the German government responded with skepticism to the news of US plans to build a national defense shield, or firewall, against attacks on data networks. The spokesman for the German Interior Ministry, Rainer Lingenthal, said the process . . .
German industry and the German government responded with skepticism to the news of US plans to build a national defense shield, or firewall, against attacks on data networks. The spokesman for the German Interior Ministry, Rainer Lingenthal, said the process of providing security within the Internet was an ongoing one. As the technology develops, the search for new security gaps or potential danger spots must be carried out anew every day, he added. The setting-up of a defense shield would not suffice. The task of securing networks was an ongoing one requiring constant work from the State and industry.

At the weekend, James Adams, an advisor for US security services NSA, told Handelsblatt the project for a national defense shield against attacks on data networks - to be ready by 2003 - was analogous with the planned National Missile Defense system.

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