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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   Yes and the Chinese are engaged in it too. If the USA can do it the Chinese, and anyone else, will say that they too have the right.
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   mickey1339 said, 3 months ago

   “The President of the United States even has the authority to green-light preemptive strikes against a credible, impending cyber-attack, according to the NYT article. This is so serious that either the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department would respond, depending on the type of attack.
   

   
   http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2013/02/05/president-obamas-new-preemptive-strike-powers-target-cyber-attackers/.
   

   
   So once more, as with nuclear weapons, the president has to be trusted to only launch a cyber-attack in the event of a credible impending attack on our countries infrastructure. I suppose this was inevitable, considering the vulnerability of the power, water and military “grids” that could be compromised. Who would have thought that the Internet we all love so much could end up being such a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands…
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   omQ R said, 3 months ago

   

   
   If you read the code along the inside of the emblem, (erm once you’ve cracked the 32 digits’ md5 cryptographic hash):

   ‘USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.’
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   Michael wme said, 3 months ago

   Yes, I remember how the Y2K bug shut down everything. All the lights went off, just as Ayn Rand predicted they would. Cars stopped. Planes fell from the sky.

   
   The goal of this particular effort is, mainly, to generate huge profits for those Friends of the Administration who are in the cyberterrorism and counter-cyberterrorism business. And a worthy goal it is, too.

   
   Bush, Jr lined his pockets and those of his friends, but in old, pre-cyber ways. President Obama is moving with the times, leaving no dollar unpilfered.
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   Radish said, 3 months ago

   The Reagan admin stole the Promis program from Inslaw and then refused to prosecute them sleves.
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   Tue Elung-Jensen said, 3 months ago

   I’m surprised at the ignorance of both what to hit, and how World of Warcraft works. Unless they also mean unsold versions of the game you would hit servers, and not individual copies. It would for that matter only hit the american servers and not european or asian.
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   old1953 said, 3 months ago

   Ahhh – this happens to be in line with what I do for a living. There have been three major cyberattacks on US targets in the last few years, and hundreds of minor attacks. Look it up.
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   Not the world of warcraft!!! Send in the drones!!!!!!!!!!
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   michael pokrivnak said, 3 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   Send in the clowns would be more appropriate.
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    jrmerm said, 3 months ago

    Is our UN rep really that unattractive?
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    kiyotake-cho said, 3 months ago

    In a world where millions will suffer or die at the push of a button, any notion of following “constitutional law” as regards retaliation towards the enemy, will be thrown out the window.

    It will be dog eat dog, kill or be killed. Survival of the fittest. It has always been this way throught history and will be even in this “enlightened” generation.
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    Rx71Wm29 said, 3 months ago

    Tue Elung-Jensen;
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    You may be over-thinking this one. The toon was meant to titillate the “unwashed masses”, not stir up the gaming geek crowd.
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 3 months ago

    Be afraid! Be very afraid!
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    Why is it the government’s job to fight this? I thought the government was too intrusive? I thought government was too big already? I thought that private sector solutions where the way to go?
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    If you are the NYT or IBM, or Boeing, or GM, GE, BofA, or whomever, why is it up to US (as in us, the taxpaying population of the US) to foot the bill to protect this thing that you have been using to make your company more profitable (efficiencies that allowed you to fire us)?
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    Earlier today i heard the the Uof MIssissippi (some university in Mississippi) was crediting the NWeatherB for giving them a heads up about the tornados on their way. I thought, Huh? A red state benefiting from “Big Gubmint” Bet their Congressmen will still be voting for big cuts! Just like they will in Louisianna, even after they embarrassed themselves at the Superbowl.
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    mickey1339 said, 3 months ago

    @Michael wme

    “The goal of this particular effort is to generate huge profits…”
    

    
    That may have something to do with it, but there is a definite real threat to the infrastructure of the country. I was in school with a lot of computer types in the late 80’s that evolved into computer security people. One friend of mine used to drum up business for his company by breaking into databases of banks and financial institutions and leaving messages for security services. Fortunately for him they usually hired him to set up better firewalls and protection for their networks rather than having him arrested.
    Beyond the Washington paranoia involved, it’s a real threat that, as usual, we are behind the curve in addressing.
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    Arghhgarrr said, 3 months ago

    Must be the latest patch from Blizzard!
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