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The Code War Arms Race

Posted by Soulskill on from the mr-gorbachev-tear-down-this-firewall dept.

pacopico writes "A story in Bloomberg Businessweek gives the first in-depth look at a wave of new start-ups selling cyber weaponry. The story describes this as the evolution of the defense industry in response to a wave of brazen attacks against Google, the Pentagon, the IMF and thousands of companies. It's pretty scary stuff, especially considering that these new weapons are not regulated at all."

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  1. So you're telling me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That the future of cyber warfare is a bunch of script kiddies in military uniforms clicking "Attack" on some shitty VBasic GUI?

  2. Re:Cyber Weaponry? by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

    Really? Good god, slashdot.

    Your cyber disgust has been cyber recorded for further cyber review.

  3. Re:That can't go wrong... by Penguinshit · · Score: 3, Funny

    The attack originated from 127.0.0.1!
    "Have you checked the children?"...

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  4. Re:The difference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And that is based on what? Your many years watching documentaries on the history channel?

  5. Re:That can't go wrong... by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forget about them hacking, they have really good porn there!

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