14 DAY TRIAL // Ever since WikiLeaks obtained large amounts of secret documents belonging to the US government, the Pentagon has been working on a plan to expose those who leak classified information. The solution appears to lie in “Fog Computing.”
DARPA researchers have revealed that they’ve come up with a “prototype for automatically generating and distributing believable misinformation.” Based on what information is leaked, they can find out who is responsible, Wired reports.
The main problem is that the technique they rely on is similar to spamming and it could lead to trust issues among those responsible for keeping secrets.
“If only researchers devoted as much ingenuity to combating spurious secrecy and needless classification. Shrinking the universe of secret information would be a better way to simplify the task of securing the remainder,” Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists said.
In the meantime, DARPA seems determined to put an end to information leakage. At the end of last year, the organization gave $9 million (7 million EUR) to a consortium led by Georgia Tech for this purpose.