During the annual State of the Union address, delivered before the newly installed 113th Congress on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama once again stepped into the political hornets’ nest of cyber-security and whether the private sector and government agencies should share anti-hacker data.
“We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private e-mail. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets,” he said. “Now, our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, and our air traffic control systems. We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy.”
