Ex-C.I.A. Chief Says U.S. Should Create A New Internet To Avoid Cyber Attacks

Michael Hayden, head of the CIA under former President George W. Bush, says the U.S. should create a totally new Internet infrastructure to thwart cyber attacks that increasingly plagues the current Internet.

The proposed new system, with the domain name ".secure" instead of ".com," would get rid of the anonymity protected by the privacy guarantees of the Fourth Amendment. Users would need "certified credentials" to access the .secure system, according to Nextgov.com, which monitors the use of technology in the federal government.

It would allow the federal government and financial institutions, for instance, to operate behind the secured infrastructure, while users who wish to remain anonymous could continue to use the present .com domain.

Some cyber security specialists fret that Fourth Amendment privacy rights prevent the federal government from securing its information technology as tightly as other, more restrictive countries, like China, that monitor all Internet usage in the country for both viruses and anything critical of the government.

Others are critical of the .secure idea, however, arguing that the new network will be too big to manage and will actually help hackers go after government computers, by gathering all the important information in one place.

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Google Says It's Willing To Change Search To Avoid EU Fight (GOOG)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the Telegraph newspaper that the company is willing to change how its search algorithms work, as long as the changes don't help spammers game search results.

Gosh, how nice of Google to agree to cooperate with regulators! Within reason, of course.

Google will soon learn that the EU is boss, and doesn't particularly care what the companies it investigates say to the press.

As Microsoft learned last decade, once the European Commission has launched a formal investigation, it may investigate almost anything, for any amount of time, and can take advice from any party it likes, including competitors to the company being investigated. It is under no particular obligation to share what it's digging up until it issues an official Statement of Objections, and that can take months. Or years.

In the meantime, companies under investigation have no way of guessing what the EU might ask them to do.

Google can say it's willing to change its search algorithms, but the EU hasn't asked it to make any changes yet.

Once the specifics come out, Google may think the EU is asking it for too much. If so, it will fight, argue, and appeal just like Microsoft did -- anything less would be a breach of duty to shareholders. And if it fights, it will probably lose. Just like Microsoft did.

Microsoft seems to have learned its lesson: in 2009, the Commission issued a statement of objections about Web browser choice, saying that Microsoft wasn't playing fair by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Instead of striking a belligerent pose, Microsoft immediately suggested a couple of changes, including a "ballot" that would let users pick a default browser upon startup. The EU accepted and the investigation ended without any fines.

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How To Avoid Getting Fired From Your Own Company

According to an SEC form D filed today, the Chicago based Centro.net has just raised a whopping $22.5 million in equity only funding. Listed on the SEC form are Centro CEO Shawn Riegsecker and FTV Capital Partner Eric Byunn as Director. Centro is a digital media and technology services company founded in 2001, serving over 350 ad agencies world wide . The company's recently launched platform Transis automates and centralizes the media buying and selling process so agencies can save time and money.

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How IT May Help Some Areas Avoid a Double Dip Recession

Metro regions with a strong technology presence may avoid the dreaded double dip recession, if one actually occurs. According to a blog post in The Wall Street Journal by Sara Murray, areas such as Boston, Raleigh, N.C., and Austin all have benefited from their tech-hub status, by experiencing lower joblessness than the national average, with an 8.4 percent unemployment rate in the Boston area, 8.2 percent in Raleigh and 7.3 percent in Austin as of July. In fact, the continued strength of tech employment has inspired Miami to get into the act by creating a new enterprise zone.

Murray cites several sources in reaching her conclusion, including this quote from The Federal Reserve.

"The Federal Reserve Board's beige book noted strength across the tech sector. Providers of information technology (IT) services such as computer software saw substantial revenue and sales gains in the Boston and Kansas City Districts, with increased demand for IT labor reported in Chicago as well," according to the report.

Companies that made semiconductors and other high-tech products in the Boston and San Francisco experienced an increase in sales whereas demand in Dallas remained steady, but at high levels. And "Manufacturers of high-tech products have been operating near maximum capacity of late," the Fed report states, "although this partly reflects a substantial decline in industry-wide capacity over the past three years."

Although its hiring forecast is not exactly robust, Manpower's survey of 62,000 employers from the public and private sectors validates the notion that most regions in the U.S. may avoid a fourth quarter economic decline. All regions anticipate an increase in hiring during the fourth quarter compared to last year, with the strongest forecasts coming from the Northeast and South and the weakest from the West.

-- Leslie Stevens-Huffman

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