US Most Vulnerable To Cyberattack?

alphadogg writes "Several nations, most prominently Russia, the People's Republic of China and North Korea, are already assembling cyber armies and attack weapons that could be used to attack other nations. Given that the United States is heavily dependent on technology for everything from computer-based banking to supply-chain tracking and air-traffic control, it's particularly vulnerable to the denial-of-service attacks, electronic jamming, data destruction and software-based disinformation tricks likely in a cyberattack. Here's what ex-presidential adviser Richard Clarke, who is releasing a new book called Cyber War, and others are saying needs to be done to keep cyberwars from escalating into full-scale combat."

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Re:FUnny how there's no eviDence...

[calibre-not-output]

And is there evidence for the general tone that these governments are all planning to sabotage the USA?

But perhaps that's just me being picky. What really worries me about all this is the combination of this "ciberwar/cyberterrorism" concept with the general mentality of the USA government that "all of our citizens are domestic terrorists until proven otherwise". That just spells out "invasion of privacy" in big bold red letters.

Re:Where's the NAZI spies?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Different kind of warfare. The British, Germans, and even the Soviets basically come from the same set of values we do- and thus their spies followed the unwritten rules (get military secrets only, don't attack civilians, etc).

The Islamics don't come from a Judaeo-Christian background; and the advent of the Dogma of Sola Jihad among the Muwahiddun sect of Islam has resulted in a a war we have already lost.

This results in only TWO viable solutions: closed borders or genocide. Unfortunately our for-profit military is taking a third, unsustainable, option instead: eternal war.

And there's your reason for ripping up the Constitution. The Constitution was designed to protect the country against enemies domestic and foreign that basically followed our same values and respected human life. For a time it also worked against enemies that didn't. But the dogma of Sola Jihad is a major game changer. Civilians aren't off limits. An attacker doesn't even need a huge supply chain behind him; a single individual can declare war on an entire nation. And most scary of all- is the hardest form of attack to stop- the attack where the attacker is willing to *trade his life* to take the lives of *multiple or important targets*.

The Nazis had NOTHING on the Muwahiddun- even their genocide of the Jews didn't come close to the monster of adolescent and oppressed middle age rage they've unleashed.