Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet

meridiangod writes "The Air Force is fed up with a seemingly endless barrage of attacks on its computer networks from stealthy adversaries whose motives and even locations are unclear. So now the service is looking to restore its advantage on the virtual battlefield by doing nothing less than the rewriting the 'laws of cyberspace.'" I'm sure that'll work out really well for them.

Comments

Re:They've solved their own problem

[sexconker]

I'm telling you (and the other idiots) some of what they do.

I'm not offering up hacked-together schemes that offer a slight improvement in security from a specific attack vector that isn't even an issue.
The typical nerd's idea of security is a joke. You have morons signing emails and IMs with PGP because they're afraid of a man-in-the-middle attack on their daily conversation with their mom. What, is the attacker going to say that you DIDN'T get the cookies she sent? You've got goobs running truecrypt for no reason other than a persecution/god complex. No one wants your shitty photos, no one cares about your pirated mp3s and movies. You have assholes monitoring every packet that goes through their hardwall, which is sitting next to a honeypot, just waiting to launch into an internet-justice campaign against the ISP of some zombie that portscanned his machine. TWICE. All the while, these morons sit with their computers (they have at least 3) strewn about, unsecured physically, and completely vulnerable to theft. They have no renter's insurance for their apartment (and those that do don't realize it won't cover their computers unless they get additional coverage).

For shit that matters, there's nothing your typical slashdot poster do contribute to the air force's computer systems. For af.mil, a select few may have some useful tips.

But stories like this on slashdot always devolve into:

"OMG all they have to do was edit /etc/esoteric/scripts to include ..."

-"Yeah, but what if you're running Fez Linux?"
--"Then you deserve to be hacked, you and your little hat lol"
--"Just change the format of the script. if you grab the gbformat package and point it at your example script it'll do it for you. It currently doesn't support ..."

-"I think you meant this directory ..."
--"But I was using a symlink!"
---"One day I needed to take a piss, and Obama..."
---"My mother is a symlink, you insensitive clod!"

-"You have the directory wrong"

-"wrong dir, durrrr"

-"Yeah, but that doesn't account for ..."
--"Just add a rule for it. Besides, no one concerned with security ..."

Re:Only traitors will vote for Oook-oook Banana

[tuxgeek]

Now I'm feeling much better that I have struck a cord with the partisan republican trolls out there. Yesterday my parent post was up to +5 insightful. The only way to lower it to +3 Insightful by today is to let personal views instead of fact sway the trolls to mod me down.

To all of you Nazi republican trolls out there: FUCK YOU and the sleazy whore that bore you.

Try as you may to destroy America with your stupidity, There will be others like me that will stop you, with our guns if necessary.