Cerf said that using only general locations was a compromise designed to help routers get packets of information to the right destination.

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In an August 2012 report, New Jersey Education Commissioner Chris Cerf said the 13, 700-student district needed "fundamental and transformational reform" to give students a high-quality education.

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In the early days of his research, Cerf said, he worked on a more secure version of his networking protocol for the National Security Agency, but wasn't able to implement that technology in what would become the public Internet.

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"We didn't pay a great deal of attention to the security side of the Internet when it was first being designed because we didn't really know if it would work at all, " Cerf said in the keynote address at Georgia Tech's annual security summit.

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And he cites a statement by Google vice president for Internet evangelism Vint Cerf last January, who said that as many as 150 million computers may be unwitting participants in botnets.

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Vint Cerf, one of the founders of the Internet, said as much in his letter to Congress earlier this month, even listing the exact ways DNS filtering would be circumvented.

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