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Pentagon To Spend $500 Million On Cyber Defense
hostedftp found a story about the Pentagon's plan to shell out half a billion dollars on cyber defense in the next year. The article says, "The $500 million is part of the Pentagon's 2012 budget request of $2.3 billion to improve the Defense Department's cyber capabilities."
...on upgrading all their trial copies of Mcafee.
....attached to vaguely defined requirements. It's what makes the consulting industry work!
the term "cyberwarfare" is still stupid.
it's espioage, sabotage or disruption of communication.
spending 500 million to defend yourself against espioage, sabotage or disruption is a very good idea.
Calling it "cyberwarfare" though conjours up far too many images from bad movies.
That article gave me an idea for a new wikipedia warning: "this article contains too many buzzwords".
The government is planning on spending $500 billion on Cyber Toilets. A spokesman stated, "It is our goal to get 90% of America's asses covered with Cyber Toilets within the next ten years." A DARPA study revealed that Americans spend an average of 15 minutes on the throne each and every day. Advances in wireless and tablet technology mean that this could be utilized as productive time to leverage the ailing economy. The spokesman continued, "The Japanese not only have shitters that can wash and dry your tush, their potties can roll excellent sushi's, too. We can not, as a country, afford to fall behind in this important technology sector." Recently, a special test program involving US Air Force UAV pilots, proved that pilots were perfectly able to hit targets while taking a dump.
A member of Congress stated, "We can not say 'no' to any spending bill with the word 'cyber' in it. Oooh! 'Cyber' . . . it makes me feel so macho!"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
How about John Boner's $450 million earmark spending the Pentagon's budget on a project it doesn't even want?