According to an article^[1] reported today in the Washington Post, President Bush has signed National Security Presidential Directive 16, calling for the creation of a national strategy for when and how to deploy cyber-warfare.

The directive was apparently signed in July, but was only disclosed recently. Perhaps it is a coincidence that this information comes to light just as former hacker Kevin Mitnick is allowed to use computers again.

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1. Original link (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38110-2003Feb6.html) no longer available as of 2025-11-23. No reliable archive snapshot found. ↩︎