Alexander runs the nation’s cyberwar efforts, an empire he has built over the past 8 years by insisting that the US’s inherent vulnerability to digital attacks requires him to amass more and more authority over the data zipping around the globe. In his telling, the threat is so mind-bogglingly huge that the nation has little option but to eventually put the entire civilian Internet under his protection, requiring tweets and emails to pass through his filters, and putting the kill switch under the government’s forefinger.

keith alexander is the pro to total information awareness amateur efforts from the early 2000s.

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