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Obama's Portrait of Cyberwar Isn't Complete Hyperbole
pigrabbitbear writes "It's hard to imagine what cyberwarfare actually looks like. Is it like regular warfare, where two sides armed with arsenals of deadly weapons open fire on each other and hope for total destruction? What do they fire instead of bullets? Packets of information? Do people die? Or is it not violent at all — just a bunch of geeks in uniforms playing tricks on each other with sneaky code? Barack Obama would like to clear up this question, thank you very much. In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal the president voiced his support for the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 now being considered by the Senate with the help of a truly frightening hypothetical: 'Across the country trains had derailed, including one carrying industrial chemicals that exploded into a toxic cloud,' Obama wrote, describing a nightmare scenario of a cyber attack. 'Water treatment plants in several states had shut down, contaminating drinking water and causing Americans to fall ill.' All because of hackers!"
In the '80s the United States sent oil pipeline controls with a trojan in it to the Soviet Union....it's not far fetched.
Obama does a good job of scaring the shit out of people and saying, "Let the government be the solution. Let us spy on your web habits via your ISP, and your cellphone via tracking. And oh yeah, we've decided to expand the TSA's mission to busstops, train stations, along highways, and at pulic facilties like malls and hotels."
In that respect he's a hell-of-lot-smarter than George "duh" Bush but ultimately it's the same fucked-up destination. Let both the (D) and (R) president burn in hell.
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>>>Strawman. Stop using them.
There's no strawman. Obama really has expanded the TSA to busstops, train depots, post offices, et cetera. It's not my fault you don't keep-up with the news and remain unaware of that fact.
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Recessions kill. How many people lost their jobs and homes due to no fault of their own in the recession? How many were so demoralized they turned to suicide? How many turned to crime themselves? We may never know, but it's certain that this is no mere property crime.
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In the '80s the United States sent oil pipeline controls with a trojan in it to the Soviet Union....it's not far fetched.
Subtle but important difference - the story is that the russians were known to be stealing control software so the CIA arranged for the copy that they stole to contain sabotaged code.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.