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The Code War Arms Race
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."
Really? Good god, slashdot.
That the future of cyber warfare is a bunch of script kiddies in military uniforms clicking "Attack" on some shitty VBasic GUI?
The attack originated from 127.0.0.1!
"Have you checked the children?"...
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
And that is based on what? Your many years watching documentaries on the history channel?
Find me a US general with just one of those traits.
Arnold (before he turned traitor at the behest of his Tory girlfriend)
Lee (before he fought for the Confederates - see also the Mexican-American War)
Sherman
Grant
Roosevelt (Theodore, not Franklin)
Pershing
Patton
Bradley
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Long story short, well... your point doesn't stand.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Forget about them hacking, they have really good porn there!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You might notice that some of the most successful military actions were based on out of the box thinking. If anything, this is able to catch the enemy by surprise.
Lately it has been sorely lacking. I have to give you that. And behold the success the US army has against a vastly inferior foe, too...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
They can't get me, officer! I have norton!!!
What WOULD render this ineffective: Teaching people how to secure their machines against the threats by exposing them.
What WILL happen: A crackdown on "hacking tools" with the false idea that without tools there will be no hacking.
For those that don't know why this is no solution: Try to outlaw them in China, and try to audit your machines for security holes without them.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The general may or may not be capable of thinking outside the box - but I guarantee that he has troops who are capable. I was Navy, rather than Army. We spent a lot of time thinking, inside, outside, under and over the box. Of six commanding officers, one was a VERY imaginative person, two more were only slightly less imaginative, and the others were more or less average in that respect. Box thinkers, but capable of following a train of thought that left the boxy station.
Clue - military people are like civilians, in that everyone is an individual. You can't summarize how military people think - especially if you're not even a military person.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
"Hacking" in it's purest form is exploring, probing, questioning, thinking, about a solution to a problem.
Thank you. I've often pointed out at places like CNN and other news forums, that the world's most famous "hackers" include Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and LInus Torvalds. Even here, on slashdot, where people should know better, half or more of the idiots assume that hacking is or should be a criminal offense, punishable by death.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
(forgot to log in, posted this originally as AC)