NSA Chief General Kieth Alexander and "The Secret War"

[Fantastic Anarchist]

49. An Interesting Excerpt:

The buying and using of such a subscription by nation-states could be seen as an act of war. “If you are engaged in reconnaissance on an adversary’s systems, you are laying the electronic battlefield and preparing to use it,” wrote Mike Jacobs, a former NSA director for information assurance, in a McAfee report on cyberwarfare. “In my opinion, these activities constitute acts of war, or at least a prelude to future acts of war.” The question is, who else is on the secretive company’s client list? Because there is as of yet no oversight or regulation of the cyberweapons trade, companies in the cyber-industrial complex are free to sell to whomever they wish. “It should be illegal,” says the former senior intelligence official involved in cyber­warfare. “I knew about Endgame when I was in intelligence. The intelligence community didn’t like it, but they’re the largest consumer of that business.”

Scary times, indeed.

Then there's Pakistan and India, an already volatile situation, who would like nothing but to work this cyber warfare in their respective favor.

I hate to sound dramatic, but I'm thinking we may be looking into the abyss with this stuff.