Self-inflicted cyberwounds.

• Author: Bosler, Clayton D.
• Position: READERS FORUM: VIEWS ... COMMENTS ... SUGGESTIONS - Letter to the editor

In her excellent editorial in October 2008, "Defense Dept. Gripped by Fear of the Millennials," Ms. Erwin quotes the deputy chief information officer at the Defense Systems Information Agency, "I absolutely believe in lockdown." She also quotes an information officer for the Director of National Intelligence as saying "What keeps security people up at night is not the Iranians or the Chinese, it's these things," referring to mobile communications devices. Even as we're spending billions to enable net-centric warfare, our own cybercops are shutting down the very devices that have ushered in the net-centric vision.

So our key cyberwarriors are building walls instead of extending networks. Am I alone in thinking of this as a cyber-era Maginot Line?

Imagine a new, young cyberwarrior, recruited by the glitzy ads...