US Planning Response To a Cyber Attack

We've all heard of Google bombing; the US Government may be taking the expression rather literally. Planning is now underway across the government for the proper way to respond to a cyber attack, and options on the table include launching a cyber counterattack or even bombing the attack's source. The article makes clear that no settled plan is in place, and quotes one spokesman as saying "the preferred route would be warning the source to shut down the attack before a military response." That's assuming the source could be found. From the article: "If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nations critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual bombing of an attack source."

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Re:Bring 'Em On

[Doc Ruby]

Fuck you stupid warmonger bitch. You aren't even brave enough to use a Slashdot ID, and you're some tough warrior? Maybe you did fly a USAF plane in Saudi (Arabia, illiterate Coward) and got fired on. Provoke what? Your mission (if it did even exist) was to keep them bottled up. You're saying we invaded Iraq because they shot at you over Saudi Arabia? That's a new one, I thought it was WMD, or Niger uranium, or spreading democracy, or some other bullshit lie you fucked up fascists spout like a flaming oil wellhead.

Just shut the fuck up. You assholes have been fucking up the whole world for at least 3 years. Just put down the gun, step away from the ledge, and let the adults clean up the bed you and your triggerhappy Republicans have shit.

You're dismissed, killbot.