US Unable To Win a Cyber War

An anonymous reader writes "The inability to deflect even a simulated cyber attack or mitigate its effects shown in an exercise that took place some six days ago at Washington's Mandarin Oriental Hotel doesn't bode well for the US. Mike McConnell, the former Director of National Intelligence, said to the US Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee yesterday that if the US got involved in a cyber war at this moment, they would surely lose. 'We're the most vulnerable. We're the most connected. We have the most to lose,' he stated. Three years ago, McConnell referred to cybersecurity as the 'soft underbelly of this country' and it's clear that he thinks things haven't changed much since then."

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Just like now

[kondor6c]

As soon as we upgrade our ability to win a cyber war, people will be out on the streets protesting the de-arming of computers.

Re:Bullshit

[vlm]

If there was an actual cyber war, we would respond with real war.

The problem is, they have to figure out how to make it look, to the folks on fox news, that it was the Iranians/Iraqis/Afgans.

The other problem, is say the PLO or the IRA pulls off an attack. Then we promptly bomb bomb bomb Venezuela because we enjoys that immensely. Someone is going to get really pissed off, probably the Venezuelan special forces. Followed by physical attack on us by the Venezuelans. So the end result is a bunch of dead women and children in Venezuela, another knocked over skyscraper here, and the folks whom actually did it get away with it. To do it again, I suppose.

Our military industrial complex will make money off it, so its all good.