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Collateral Damage From Cyber Warfare?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

theodp writes "If you're thinking about applying for that open US cyber warfare czar position, Robert X. Cringely points out that you will have to effectively function as a world cyber warfare czar, a fact that neither Republican nor Democratic Administrations have yet been willing to embrace, at least in public. The international nature of today's outsourced-and-offshored IT business has big implications for US security. Try to do a security audit of your company's technical resources in Argentina or Bangladesh, suggests Bob, and see what nightmare is unveiled. Toss some random Code Gods into the mix, says Cringely, and it's really too tough to predict who might win in a game of US vs. Albania."

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  1. Hmmm... by jo42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe it is time to end this man-made idiocy of nations and borders?

    1. Re:Hmmm... by BigBlueOx · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe it is time to end this man-made idiocy of nations and borders?

      I called Princess Peach, My Little Pony and The Care Bears and they're on it.

      Consider it done.

    2. Re:Hmmm... by iamhigh · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually if you are in power of a small kingdom, what better way to expand your power than spearheading a campaign to eliminate all other small power and rule as the supreme overlord.

      I for one welcome our pink, floating overlord.

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      No comprende? Let me type that a little slower for you...
  2. Re:The internet is a bunch of insecure nodes by ViennaSt · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The internet is a bunch of insecure nodes"

    No no no. It's a series of tubes, powered by hampsters running in rotating wheels. You're right about these microkernels you speak of--we must "embrace" them, for they are the food that power the hampsters. With the power of the microkernals, these super hampsters can then secure the internets from "enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material," and soon the internet will become a big truck that you can dump anything on.

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    "Engineering. Where the noble, semi-skilled laborers execute the vision of those who think and dream." -Sheldon