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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.
LAUNCH!
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 NSA and its big brother- Britain's GCHQ- are responsible for all the types of electronic crimes outlets like slashdot try to demonise Russia over. These two filthy Orwellian spin-offs of the British Empire use unlimited methods to spy on the entire planet- and now they deploy hardware and software solutions designed by Google they are better at the task than anyone could ever have imagined last century.
The perfect police state requires perfect 'intelligence'- and the intelligence system is used for three main purposes
1) to read the 'mind' of the general population in as close to 'real time' as possible. This allows for the perfecting of propaganda campaigns via feedback.
2) to gain 'blackmail' information on the entire population, so anyone who rises to a significant position of power of influence can be controlled by the Deep State
3) to identify emerging grass root movements and/or leaders before said entities reach greater public awareness- allowing such to be co-opted or eliminated at such an early stage that fallout is minimal.
No-one ever cared about 'criminals' or 'terrorists'- that's a fantasy put out for the most credible sheeple.
Cyber-warfare isn't a good fit for the Google/NSA/GCHQ enterprise. So Human History's most aggressive and murderous war nation, the USA (Britain's literal Frankenstein's Monster) will naturally craft specialised cyber war units to attack essential civilian infrastructure in target nations. Yet interestingly, Google is designing and building the drone tanks Google hopes will finally 'persuade' congress to sign off on the war with Iran. All of Google's AI initiatives are really trying to perfect the systems used on the drone tanks, under the guise of 'civilian' research.
It won't be long before the USA is murdering kids in other nations claiming their skills in countering US cyber attacks makes them legitimate targets. Tony Blair bombed the equivalent of the BBC headquaters in Serbia- murdering all the ordinary civilian TV workers inside- because he claimed their accurate reporting of Blair's war crimes during the Kosovo War made them a 'legitimate' target. The agenda and operations of the NSA and GCHQ is of the purest evil- and the development of seperate cyber warfare teams was planned long before Trump became president.
It is the very purpose of the Deep State to ensure that projects with life cycles way longer than a single political term can be planned, researched and implemented without regard to whom the sheeple vote into power at any given moment. People literally have no ability or option to vote against the Deep State agendas. At best the US president fronts a current Deep State project in its public phase. If a president like Trump refuses to front a project (like the holocaust of secular Syria that Clinton promised with her 'no fly' zones and US bombing of the Syrian forces fighting ISIS), it just has to be put on the back-burner til a more 'accomodating' person replaces him.
Of course, Slashdot will lie, and try to blame Trump for the cyber warfare units, even tho he is only signing off on a policy years in the making. All presidents lie and claim the thing they are signing for was their idea- it's just how popular politics works.
Trump is hated by slashdot, and its neo-liberal and neo-con thugs because Clinton was going to be America's Tony Blair, and push America into much bigger and far more murderous wars than at any time since WW2. The owners of slashdot howl in anger as Russia exterminates their wahhabi terror gangs in Syria, damaging the spread of Saudi control throughout the muslim world. Trump has spoilt the dreams of the warmongers for the near future.
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.
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.
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.
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.