What amuses me is that a four star Air Force general is going to be in charge. Is it because he is more tech savvy than his Navy and Army counterparts? Why not just use the cyberspace to communicate, and make life easy for everyone?
What amuses me is that a four star Air Force general is going to be in charge. Is it because he is more tech savvy than his Navy and Army counterparts? Why not just use the cyberspace to communicate, and make life easy for everyone?
Like others way back when, I wrote a lot on cyber warfare. I hit the trail early in 1995. To me, this seems to be an effort to bring US Counterinsurgency into the cyber cultural terrain/realm. Here are some items on cyberwar dating back 14 years. With the global economic structure now so reliant on the Net and networks, it would make little sense for a nation-state to disrupt networks. Probably safe to assume that illicit drug organizations rely on the Net as well.
1995???US Gov Efforts: http://www.springerlink.com/content/y322680tml37150x/
1998??????White House Plans Cyber Homeland Defense Effort??? published in National Defense.
Feb 2000???Cyber War: http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/ARCHIVE/2000/FEBRUARY/Pages/Rules4391.aspx
Feb 2001??????U.S. Homeland Defense Policy Mired in Competing Interests,??? National. Defense 85 no.567 (Feb 2001)
2002???Terror in Cyberspace http://abs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/45/6/1017
Create a crisis then come to the "rescue" using the created crisis to further consolidate control over EVERY aspect of the American Citizen's life. Wise up folks. This is how we got the abomination called Homeland Security and the "Patriot Act".
The reporter for this article should be assigned a more old fashioned news beat.
Cyberspace and Cyberwar are NOT about distance and location.
The reference to NSA experts as geeks is the last millennium's speak.
The are professionals upon which we depend.
The NSA issues are not turf issues they are serious LEGAL issues about domestically focused activities.
A well planned cyber attack could have catastrophic short-term casualties to modern-day integrated business society, but it's effects would probably not be catastrophic. The biggest problem that remains is the lack of security on the consumer-end computer, rather than the staffed networks that run our nation's top companies and government. Companies are quick to recover from any serious viral threat, it is the end-user that may take days, weeks, or even months, to get their own computer fixed.
"And without the swift help of NSA's top geeks,the formersenior official said,"We're going to have a catastrophe."
How comes we're always scared that our shiny, multi-trillion dollar military can be foiled by a couple of toilet-brush weilding fanatics working out of a hut in Kandahar??
No one is "hundreds of miles" from anyone today.
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