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US Military To Create Separate Unified Cyber Warfare Command (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey quotes a report from SecurityWeek: President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to elevate its cyber warfare operations to a separate command, signaling a new strategic emphasis on electronic and online offensive and defensive operations. "I have directed that United States Cyber Command be elevated to the status of a Unified Combatant Command focused on cyberspace operations," Trump said in a statement Friday. The move would expand the number of the Defense Department's unified combatant commands to 10, putting cyber warfare on an equal footing with the Strategic Command, the Special Operations Command, and regional commands. Until now cyber warfare operations have been run under the umbrella of the National Security Agency, the country's main electronic spying agency, with Admiral Michael Rogers heading both.
pew pew!
So if you get a papercut or spit coffee on your keyboard, do you get a purple heart?
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
As long as you keep insisting of shitty pay and have hard-ass requirements (strict drug screening and physical requirements) then you are going to continue getting people that just aren't that great. On top of that having to take orders from some asshole or face prison time isn't appealing in the least.
The problem here is that they are trying to fight a war of creativity using the most creativity stifling environment.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
The non-military contractor based way of doing this leaves them open to individual suits against operators which could in turn expose more.
The individual liability of operators in the military is under that umbrella, replete with Geneva type protections if captured abroad.
Just for cyber sex? Ridiculous.
Ok then, goat molester.
Does anybody think the military is still paying any attention to anything Donald Trump says? Even if they support him, they've probably decided by now that he's just a figurehead that will keep the budget money flowing and maybe give them a chance to try out their toys. I seriously doubt they're listening to anything he says. Maybe when he calls the Pentagon they put Trump on speakerphone and laugh their asses off.
I keep thinking about General Kelly's body language the other day when Trump was doing his freestyle rap about how there are some "very nice" neo-Nazis and the General Pershing and pig's blood canard. He looked like he'd rather be in Afghanistan driving a humvee blindfolded in Kabul than being responsible for trying to make the flabby sack of cooked oatmeal that is our POTUS look like some facsimile of a competent human being.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Yes Trump truly is the chosen one. Rattling sabers with NO after repeatedly claiming he'd love to talk during the campaign.
You conspiratards really bought the whole cow this time.
Capability based security could render all this stuff moot. Operating systems that trust everything the applications do are inherently insecure.
Why do I envision the WoW guy from Southpark; cyber warrior.
President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to elevate its cyber warfare operations to a separate command, signaling a new strategic emphasis on hunting down his political opponents, and those who would question him.
Obligatory: wtfmate? -PCP
Aug. 18, Juche 106 (2017) Friday
DPRK's Steps to Reinforce Nuclear Force Are Just Ones for Preventing Nuclear War
The DPRK's test-launch of ICBM Hwasong-14 is a stern warning to the U.S. spouting out a flurry of silly jargons to do harm to the DPRK, and its steps to reinforce the nuclear force are the just ones for self-defense to put a definite end to the U.S. persistent nuclear threat and blackmail against the DPRK and prevent a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula.
The DPRK's steps to bolster up nuclear deterrent touted by the U.S. and its vassal forces is not a threat to global peace and security but the U.S. reckless saber-rattling for nuclear war seriously getting on the nerves of our state is the threat to global peace and security.
The DPRK dignified with independence will never put the nuclear deterrent for self-defense on the negotiating table and flinch even an inch from the road of bolstering up the state nuclear force already chosen by itself.
It is no more than a declaration of war against the DPRK that the U.S. fabricated the unprecedented "sanctions resolution" which categorically cut off normal trade activities and economic exchange in the UN by branding the DPRK as the "force to wreck peace".
All service personnel and people of the DPRK will show their mettle if the U.S. dares ignite a war against the former.
If an order is issued, we will give vent to the pent-up wrath on the U.S. imperialists and wipe out the aggressors to the last one so that there would be no one left to sign a surrender document.
The U.S., chief criminal wrecking global peace and security and enemy common to mankind, would meet a miserable doom before long.
Jo Thaek Bom
Hell is full of good wishes and desires. Grow up.
Reorg if you can't do anything useful. It is an old story and basically blows 12 months.
This is a waste of money.
The US Army is building a huge "cyber command" in my state. Too bad it is 4 hrs from anywhere interesting with small-town ideas.
I grew up in places like that. Never need to relive that experience where the military pushes the townies around, but the townies are still living in the 1950s.
They probably still teach about the "War of Northern Aggression" there too.
Just shooting those puny nukes out of the sky with all this energy in my fingers. Plus, it probably boosted the OP's self-esteem a few points.