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"Cyber War" Is Just the Latest Grab for Defense Money
New submitter Curseyoukhan writes "The phrase 'cyber war' is being used to scare us into coughing up money and liberties, just like 'anarchist' once was, and 'terror' still is. To quote H.L. Mencken, 'The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.'"
As usual with war in the 21th century, the most active aggressor is the United States. For God and Freedom, the United States are actively bombing, invading several countries, and be sure that United States are also making war on the cyber arena.
I will not disclose which country I work for - it's a small western nation - but still our defensive forces identify and stop thousands of orchestrated attacks from the US each month. It's a silent war, and it's fought on a massive scale. I don't even want to speculate on the extent of targeted US industrial cyber spionage on other nations companies.
Be sure the United States is the world's primary Cyber aggressor.