We here at Crunch may use the Internet for fun little things, like Twitter or Spotify (I’ve tried the U.S. version—it’s pretty great), but it’s only a matter of time till the Internet becomes just another place where governments can fight each other. Cyberwar, etc.!
Right, so apparently the Pentagon will present President Obama with plans to create a new “military command for cyberspace.” Details, well, don’t exist; the president hasn’t even seen the plans yet.
What can be extrapolated from that, though, is that the government seems to be taking cyberwarfare a lot more seriously. There’s still some confusion (read: bureaucratic infighting) as to who would be in charge of preparing the country’s cyberwar defense, either the Pentagon or the National Security Agency, but that’s a debate for some clueless CNN afternoon program.
In any event, I look forward to entering enemy chat rooms and running a middle finger macro. That’ll teach ‘em.
PLEASE! LET’S GET RID OF THE CRAP THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW! HE’S A BETTER COMMUNIST DICTATOR FOR CUBA! LET’S PUT SOMEONE IN THERE WITH SOME COMMON SENSE! THE IDIOTS WHO VOTED THE LOSER IN DON’T HAVE ANY SENSE EITHER! I’D LOVE TO PUT ALL OF THEM ON A BIG ROCKET, INCLUDING THE ‘IDOL’ WORSHIPPERS AND SEND THEM TO THE SUN! THEN IT WOULD BE HAPPY DAYS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
Another ploy of smioke and mirrors to get us off track, what about a racists circuit court judge getting ready to be sent to the supreme court, what about a tiny dictator who can’t even keep the lights on in his country, see the satellite photos, but can send a nuke toward our troops and allies, so much more, but yeah let’s just talk about a way to protect the governments computers? Where have we been on this issue? What about the CIA’s cyber agency?, the FBI’s cyber retaliation coalition?
See through the smoke and don’t look at the mirrors. make him and his socialist, no Marxist, cronies answer the pertinent questions at hand.
Ok…. minus all the fanatical views on other issues being commented on… This should’ve been done a long time ago. It’s pretty well known cyberwarfare (cracking especially), and computerized battle networking have been used in the military and even C.I.A. for a while now. And as other nations military’s have become more dependent on the likes of technology, it’s only fair we have divisions specifically tasked to not only protect our military technology, but effectively take down enemy networks. To deny a future where squadrons of fighters are brought down with a simple virus, where command networks are fed false data to confuse enemies, where entire battalions are effectively severed from their command and entire regions of the Earth are blacked out from enemy satellites, would be a failure for the military. The battlespace is changing rapidly, no longer is it only air, land, sea surface, and underwater. To push forward we have to include cyberspace and even space itself.