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The US-Soviet Cyber Cold War
Roberto123 writes "A security expert with the NSA says a cyber cold war is being waged that has significant parallels to the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union. Dickie George says the way to fight the cyber cold war is by building security into technology, making it transparent to the end user, continually monitoring networks and updating their security software."
This is probably just PR crap like the last cold war....
After World War II the US was the lone superpower and the greatest military war machine in the history of civilization. But we had no enemies, none of any consequence anyway. How to get the citizens to continue funding the massive war business was a serious concern. So the US and Russia - allies during the war - entered into an agreement whereby the west would build up Russia's military technology for them and in return they could be "the enemy." They could threaten their citizens with the "decadent capitalists" and we could frighten ours with the "red menace." But it was all a ruse. There was never any "detente" or anything like it. Russia was from its inception considered a third world country and heavily subsidized by the west - at taxpayers' expense, of course.
"...according to hundreds of U.S. State Department documents, the Soviet industrial and military capabilities such as trucking, aircraft, oil, steel, petrochemical, aluminum, and computers were constructed at the U.S. taxpayers' expense in the Soviet Union." - Daniel Estulin, The True Story Of The Bilderberg Group
"In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of external menace." - John Foster Dulles, secretary of state in the Eisenhower administration