Dan Kaufman and Lesley Stahl CBS NEWS
60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl interviewed Dan Kaufman, Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Information Innovation Office (I2O), for the following clip called Nobody’s safe on the Internet which aired on February 8th. The 13 minute clip highlights how hacking is now a matter of national security, something many in the computer science community have been saying for a long time. As our society continues to become more technologically advanced the situation will only become more serious. Internet connectivity will become embedded in everything from our baby monitors to refrigerators, through Internet of Things technologies, and our privacy and security to be compromised. This is an issue that is beginning to get some much needed attention, even from a Senator.
Kaufman’s team at DARPA is in charge of inventing technology to fight this new Internet war. Last May, the I2O hosted a Demo Day to highlight DARPA’s ongoing contributions to preserving and expanding Information Technology superiority. The Pentagon event showcased the span of DARPA projects designed to change how the nation addresses growing national security challenges posed by the Information Revolution and by the increasing global availability of sophisticated information technologies.
See the I2O program website for the full list of projects that Dan and his team are working on.
To watch the full clip, click here.
