Bush Orders Guidelines for Cyber-Warfare

Jeremiah writes "The pending Iraqi war promises to deliver quite the display of modern, smart technology well beyond what we saw in '91. President Bush recently ordered the development of rules for cyber engagement by the military. Beyond the numerous special forces on the ground like in Afganistan, the US will use soldiers in office chairs to disrupt Iraqi infrastructure."

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I hope for the sake of our boys

[Adam Rightmann]

all the Iraqi IT guys don't read Slashdot and Bugtraq.

Let's be real, how is Taco going to feel when he reads about a Chinook full of young Americans that got shot down from a SAM battery that could not be hacked and disabled because Achmed reads Slashdot, and knew enough to patch his OpenBSD 3.0 firewall (yeah, I got caught by that OpenSSH bug, too).

I'm sure it's an unpopular view amongst the freedom of IP at all costs crowd that's common here, but maybe for the duration of the Iraqi conflict, we can stop posting exploit and bug notifications, at least until the US has installed a nascent capitalist, western ideologued democracy in Iraq.

moron adding gadgetry to assist in invasions

[Anonymous Coward]

just make sure all of yOUR phonIE payper liesense stock markup hostage ransom .contracts are paid dupe, geeorgee.

tell 'em robbIE.

l00kout bullow. there's already conflicts raging on the pacific crest annex of wall street of deceit. they've gottIEd more 'fire' power than sadman ever dreamed of. rumour has it that they (megaslothownions) just take the eyeballs & wallets of their victims.

look for us.va.msn.?net? (VAST)? without a DOWt?

don't knowbody say the G, L, O, F, etc... words?

Creating More Monsters

[Red Rocket]

This administration seems intent on creating uncontrollable monsters. It's not OK to create groups of nasty people just because you intend to use them against other nasty people. At some point they'll need something else to attack just because that's what they do best.

The Star Wars parallels are unreal...

[interactive_civilian]

blindcoder said:

One can only hope... that this "Elite Hacker Force" will be shut down after Bush is done with his war.

This reminds me of the probable hope of the Senate of the Republic that Chancellor Palpatine would give up his power once the state of emergency was over (as we well know that he didn't).

Honestly, I see a lot of similarity to President Bush and his war on terror (etc.) and Palpatine's efforts in the senate. How long until President (soon to be emperor?) Bush "dissolves the imperial senate and puts control in the hands of the regional governers. Fear will keep them in line. Fear of this..." US Military juggernaut. I guess life can immitate art.

If President Bush is re-elected for another term, then I really need to find a way off of this planet. I fear that nothing short of a revolution will keep his power and his ambitions in check. I've already gotten out of the US once. Perhaps the next time will only be to get off the planet. Scary thought.

Or perhaps I have just watched too many movies and have had too many beers tonight. Feel free to call me a troll. I have karma to burn. ;)

Re:Preparing to fight which war, exactly?

[isa-kuruption]

Low tech?

Remember, lots of communications between Osama /bin/Laden and his cronies was done with encrypted emails. This is the opposite of "low tech". In fact, they probably used PGP. So, while the attacks themselves were low tech, the planning and development stage of it was VERY high tech.

Amerikkka RULES!!! Lets go to war!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

So cool. Any one who wants war should be forced to fight it. Don't ask another to die for you, coward.