From Wired's blog... "Chertoff's talk shed precious little light on the details of the Bush administration's cyber security plans...Its contents are classified, but the U.S. Director of National Intelligence has said he wants the NSA to monitor America's internet traffic and Google searches for signs of cyber attack."

-- The federal government has launched a cyber security "Manhattan Project"... because online attacks can be a form of "devastating warfare", and equivalent in damage to "physical destruction of the worst kind." Chertoff cited last year's denial-of-service attacks against Estonia, and hypothetical hack attacks on financial networks and air traffic control systems, as proof that a federal strategy was needed.

"Imagine, if you will, a sophisticated attack on our financial systems that caused them to be paralyzed," Chertoff said. "It would shake the foundation of trust on which our financial system works."