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America's War on the Web
An anonymous reader writes "The Sunday Herald is reporting that while the US is continuing to pursue traditional means of protecting national security, they are also planning to launch a new wave of 'information warfare' to help combat a perceived growing threat of IT security. From the article: 'The Pentagon has already signed off $383 million to force through the document's recommendations by 2009. Military and intelligence sources in the US talk of "a revolution in the concept of warfare". The report orders three new developments in America's approach to warfare [...] the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet in order to dominate the realm of communications, prevent digital attacks on the US and its allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-attacks against enemies.'"
While true there are a handful of people in this world that could take down the entire internet singlehandedly. They won't do it but they could. The potential does exist that oneday one of these guys will either lose their mind or somehow be forced into terrorism does exist. Though what does it tell you about these terrorist or people who do these things in general that the people who are smart enough to cause the most damage generally don't. Alas one could abduct a nuclear scientist and achieve the same result couldn't they??