)>> What was it, that Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Vietnam, Korea, Germany or Japan could've hit,
)>> but chose not to because of our (continuing) adherence?
)>
)> Like I said: breathtakingly shortsighted. Japan is the only one of those nations that ever attacked US soil.
A minor point, German U-boats were trolling US East Coast waters... to the point where cities started 'going dark' at night to make it harder for the water-nazis to find the harbors and attack ships.
Perhaps not technically "attacking US soil", but pretty damn close.
Well that's just it. There probably already *is* a Mil.botnet. Except it belongs to the NSA and they probably/don't/ go through classic target preparation protocols.
*IF* that's the case (I have no idea) then one might see the USAF's comments as floating the idea to prepare the ground for more overt mil.botnets.
"Oh hai! Can I weaponize your computorz? kthx!"
Will there be a pop-up window? "Click here to help defend your country!" ?
So if they spread malware-like rootkitty things to infect(?) we patriots and allow(TM) us to help them defend the country's "cyber" defenses (or whatever)... might it someday become necessary to use all those nifty decentralized bots to, gosh, I dunno, monitor other things? You know, like in a civil emergency or something. Or child porn cases. Or possibly when people post malicious Craigslist ads. Or blog dissenting thoughts.
"All your traffic are belong to us" ? heh.
Here's another fun thought: If 400,000 civilian home computers become part of Great and Patriotic Mil.Botnet, and therefore part of a weapons system--- That blurs the line between who is civilian and who is military. What does that mean for the Posse Comitatus Act? (Fortunately that's already been pre-shredded for us, so this is more of a philosophical/rhetorical question.;) Would we get to democratically vote on each attack? [POPUP]"Do you want to help attack East Asia's evil computer network? [YES][NO]"
Anyway, what we think is probably irrelevant. I suspect we have little choice in the matter and they'll go ahead an do it anyway. (if they haven't already).
happy reformatting!
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klek
I hope that they will be able to offer satellite and 3D imagery of the gigantic plastic-trash gyre north of Hawaii. And anyway, aren't there other trash gyres in the oceans?
Will they be able to provide real-time ocean vehicle tracking? Science buoys? Locations of marine accidents? The nearest pizza delivery to your port-of-call? Hurricane tracking? Atlantis?
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Klek
--.Sig, munde, froid.
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)>> What was it, that Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Vietnam, Korea, Germany or Japan could've hit, )>> but chose not to because of our (continuing) adherence? )> )> Like I said: breathtakingly shortsighted. Japan is the only one of those nations that ever attacked US soil. A minor point, German U-boats were trolling US East Coast waters... to the point where cities started 'going dark' at night to make it harder for the water-nazis to find the harbors and attack ships. Perhaps not technically "attacking US soil", but pretty damn close.
Well that's just it. There probably already *is* a Mil.botnet. Except it belongs to the NSA and they probably /don't/ go through classic target preparation protocols.
*IF* that's the case (I have no idea) then one might see the USAF's comments as floating the idea to prepare the ground for more overt mil.botnets.
"Oh hai! Can I weaponize your computorz? kthx!"
Will there be a pop-up window? "Click here to help defend your country!" ?
So if they spread malware-like rootkitty things to infect(?) we patriots and allow(TM) us to help them defend the country's "cyber" defenses (or whatever) ... might it someday become necessary to use all those nifty decentralized bots to, gosh, I dunno, monitor other things? You know, like in a civil emergency or something. Or child porn cases. Or possibly when people post malicious Craigslist ads. Or blog dissenting thoughts.
"All your traffic are belong to us" ? heh.
Here's another fun thought: If 400,000 civilian home computers become part of Great and Patriotic Mil.Botnet, and therefore part of a weapons system--- That blurs the line between who is civilian and who is military. What does that mean for the Posse Comitatus Act? (Fortunately that's already been pre-shredded for us, so this is more of a philosophical/rhetorical question. ;) Would we get to democratically vote on each attack? [POPUP]"Do you want to help attack East Asia's evil computer network? [YES][NO]"
Anyway, what we think is probably irrelevant. I suspect we have little choice in the matter and they'll go ahead an do it anyway. (if they haven't already).
happy reformatting!
.
klek
I hope that they will be able to offer satellite and 3D imagery of the gigantic plastic-trash gyre north of Hawaii. And anyway, aren't there other trash gyres in the oceans? Will they be able to provide real-time ocean vehicle tracking? Science buoys? Locations of marine accidents? The nearest pizza delivery to your port-of-call? Hurricane tracking? Atlantis? . Klek -- .Sig, munde, froid.
They were outside of Seattle's Scientology building also. http://forums.enturbulation.org/viewtopic.php?t=1806&highlight=seattle