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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 8. Oktober 2013 / Time Line October 8, 2013
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10/08/2013
Shutdown Hurts Morale, Top Cyber Commander Says
By Claudette Roulo
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2013 - The morale of the cybersecurity
workforce is being damaged by the government shutdown, the nation's
top cyber commander said here today.
"What these people take an oath to do is to protect and defend this
country and our civil liberties and privacy, and we're telling them
to stay at home," said Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander of
U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security
Agency.
"How do you get good talent to come to government when you treat
them like that?" he asked an audience of cybersecurity
professionals during a conference at the Newseum.
The NSA is still performing its most critical functions:
terrorism-related missions and those that protect life and limb,
the general said. But, he noted, due to the shutdown the agency
risks losing some of its most vulnerable employees -- young people
new to government service.
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