Ted Rall for February 11, 2013
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The president's lawyers say he has broad powers-surprise!- to do anything he wants in cyberwarfare, including launching a preemptive strike against another nation. But an Iraq-style war of choice would be harder to sell to the American people because, as a white house official put it: "it would be very hard to provide evidence to the world that you hit some deadly dangerous computer code. (Man: Less than a gig of code- the amount of programming on this thumb drive- would be enough to crash every copy of "World of Warcraft" from Maine to Honolulu.
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.