Government Spies Admit That Cyber Armageddon Is Unlikely

Nicola Hahn writes NSA director Mike Rogers spoke to a Senate Committee [Thursday], admonishing them that the United States should bolster its offensive cyber capabilities to deter attacks. Never mind that deterrence is problematic if you can't identify the people who attacked you. In the past a speech by a spymaster like Rogers would have been laced with hyperbolic intimations of the End Times. Indeed, for almost a decade mainstream news outlets have conveyed a litany of cyber doomsday scenarios on behalf of ostensibly credible public officials. So it's interesting to note a recent statement by the U.S. intelligence community that pours a bucket of cold water over all of this. According to government spies the likelihood of a cyber Armageddon is "remote." And this raises some unsettling questions about our ability to trust government officials and why they might be tempted to fall back on such blatant hyperbole.

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Re:There will never be another major war again

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as long as the corporations are reigned in and controlled

otherwise the search for more profit by any means leads to the progressive impoverishment of the masses. at some point, a revolution occurs, the original idealists are shoved aside, and power is taken by the usual douchebags who appeal to the usual nationalist prejudices. as putin shows, nationalism demands imperial adventures to stay alive. put two major regions like that next to each other: china-russia, russia-europe, india-china, etc... and you get a major war

so corporations need to be kept on a leash and the average person has to feel secure, and you are correct: no more major wars. because corporations will pay to keep a lid on the usual pettiness that lead to pointless wars like in the past

but corporations allowed to vacuum up profit at the detriment of the common man and you get social destabilization, revolution, and then some years later a napoleon, a stalin, a mao, and all the usual mass murdering adventures that come with such assholes