Details of a new NSA program have emerged from Wireds meticulous Snowden profile this morning. The program is still in development and there is no information on if or when it might be deployed, but once put in action, it would represent a huge shift towards American control over the internet, effectively stopping any traffic the NSA deems malicious. It isnt the first time someone has proposed stamping out malware by monitoring network traffic — the SecDev group took a similar approach with its ZeroPoint project — but with a network-level view of most of the traffic traveling over the web, the NSA is uniquely positioned to pull it off.
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