If that’s a war, then what words will we cheapen when something worse comes along? Will we call it a “cyber genocide”? A “cyber holocaust,” perhaps?
(Click the headline to read this article…)President Obama’s cybersecurity speech is essentially the same as President Clinton’s speech 11 years ago — right down to the debut of a flawed presidential report…
(Click the headline to read this article…)It doesn’t make it any more real when it flows from the lips of the president of the United States…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Antivirus vendors & computer news outlets played a much greater role than they’ll ever admit…
(Click the headline to read this article…)“ooooh, I’m sorry! I could never possibly show you how I derived these extraordinarily round yet highly accurate figures. Our background data is super top secret mega need to know…”
(Click the headline to read this article…)French navy spokesman Jérome Erulin said “it was a security problem we had already simulated.” It’s good to know the French military keeps up with their surrender skills…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Congressman James Langevin (D-RI) fears America will suffer dire consequences in a successful cyber-attack. It might cause the failure of banking or national electrical systems, he said. Strong words. So — did a cyber-attack cause the banking industry to plea for a $700 billion emergency bailout?
(Click the headline to read this article…)Imagine the frustration Georgia’s president must have felt. Russian tanks & bombers are swooping in, but what does the media really care about? “President Saakashvili, is it true the president of Poland agreed to host your website until the cyberattacks subside?”
(Click the headline to read this article…)You’ll find details on the aircraft, tanks, and rifles used in this conflict … yet nothing at all on the cyber-weapons. Wikipedia offers not a single clue about the Kremlin’s computing might, software armaments, nor even a map of the major IP boundaries…
(Click the headline to read this article…)In a physical war, a politician shouts “Christiane Amanpour’s plane landed at the airport, everyone flee for your lives!” In a cyber-war, a coworker shouts “John Markoff’s story just went online, everyone click on the links!” And why don’t we hear stories about, who knows, maybe Georgia’s victorious counter-thrust into Russian IP space where they dropped a Google-bomb on the .ru TLD, or something like that…?
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