Excellent article Kevin. The government should be more concerned about private sector security, because many time hackers use it as a stepping stone to penetrate government systems.

Why couldn't offensive cyber weapons, like Rsignia's CyberScope (http://bit.ly/9ARef2) be modified for civilian use? Instead of attacking back, it could transfer the malicious attacker into a honeypot type system to collect forensics evidence. The attacker is stopped, and law enforcement would have solid evidence to go after the hacker.

I have to agree with Brian, if you want to secure your internal business from internet threats, cut the cord connecting it to the internet.

FreeBSD seems to be the secure OS choice for some large companies. Richard Bejtlich recommends using it as the base for network sensors in a monitored network. It also appears to be the base for China's secure Kylin OS, 99.45 percent match according to ZDNet.

The US does need to do something. Microsoft is not the answer. The problem is they create something "secure" then include backwords compatibility into it. Yikes...

Also, Microsoft wants to release Windows 7 Embedded and put it on billions of embedded devices, god save us...