Pentagon Debates Cyber-War Offense

[woo me with science]

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/pentagon-admits-to-building-cyber-arms-20111108-1n4kl.html

Pentagon admits to building cyber arms
November 8, 2011

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The Pentagon's advanced research arm is boosting efforts to build offensive cyber arms for possible keyboard-launched US military attacks against enemy targets.
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US officials stepped up warnings about possible destructive cyber attacks after the computer virus Stuxnet emerged in 2010, disrupting centrifuges that Iran uses to enrich uranium for what the United States and some European nations have charged is a covert nuclear weapons program. The US and Israeli governments have been blamed for the attack by Iranian sources. Some commentators claimed Stuxnet was too sophisticated and expensive to have been developed by non-state-sponsored agents.
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The DARPA budget request for fiscal 2012, which began October 1, called for its cyber research funding to jump more than 73 per cent to US$208 million (A$200 million) from $120 million (A$115 million).
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US officials have declined to discuss publicly US offensive capabilities in cyberspace. One key concern is whether the United States can defend against possible retaliatory cyber attacks that might target such things as transportation, banking systems and power grids.

[bemildred]

1. So are we going to have cyber-counter-insurgencies?

Is that the idea?

[woo me with science]

2. Twitter. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Erect bogeyman. Wave flag. Demand more money. Works every time.