Pentagon Searches for ‘Digital DNA’ to Identify Hackers

The Pentagon is searching for Digital DNA to catch hackers? Sounds like a bad plot to a crappy crime drama (Washington D: CSI).

"In other words," The Register’s Lew Page notes, "any code you write, perhaps even any document you create, might one day be traceable back to you - just as your DNA could be if found at a crime scene, and just as it used to be possible to identify radio operators even on encrypted channels by the distinctive ‘fist’ with which they operated their Morse keys. Or something like that, anyway."

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