Pentagon Says Military Response to Cyber Attack Possible

tekisui

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Wed May-12-10 11:08 PM
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Pentagon Says Military Response to Cyber Attack Possible

Source: The Raw Story

The Pentagon would consider a military response in the case of a cyber attack against the United States, a US defense official said on Wednesday.

Asked about the possibility of using military force after a cyber assault, James Miller, undersecretary of defense for policy, said: "Yes, we need to think about the potential for responses that are not limited to the cyber domain."

But he said it remained unclear what constituted an act of war in cyberspace.

"Those are legal questions that we are attempting to address," Miller said at a conference in Washington, adding that "there are certainly a lot of grey areas in this field."

He said hostile acts in cyberspace covered a wide range, from digital espionage to introducing false data into a network, that did not necessarily represent full-blown war.

more: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0512/pentagon-military-response-cyber-attack/

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Newsjock

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Wed May-12-10 11:09 PM
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1. Bomb Nigeria ... yeah, that will end well

And that shady place in Winnipeg that keeps trying to sell me penis pills. Bomb them, too.

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Thu May-13-10 05:58 AM
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6. They cannot bomb nigeria. It's a british neocolony

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cliffordu

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Wed May-12-10 11:14 PM
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2. Of course if they spoof addresses....

we'd blow the shit out of the wrong country.

putzes.

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Johonny

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Thu May-13-10 12:20 AM
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3. well that's possible

Richard Clark was on KO what last week talking about this. North Koreans use Chinese sites to cyber attack the US. There is really nothing to Cyber attack back in North Korea. At some point a Cyber attack could be consider serious enough the US populous would consider the attack an act of war and demand real combat. Imagine you crashed the NYSE. Who do you fight the Chinese, the North Koreans, both or just the hackers? The point was the US doesn't have very clear thought out response policies yet and probably needs them or else something stupid well eventually happen.

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Thu May-13-10 02:27 AM
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4. What they need to do is build a torpedo

that can travel along the series of interconnected tubes.

It's only a matter of time before they use this as another 9/11 excuse to go steal resources.

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Newest Reality

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Thu May-13-10 05:55 AM
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5. Ah ... now that's the ticket!

A virtual excuse for war in meat space. How convenient and much easier to implement!

The military-industrial state marches on. Be ready to cough-up more tax dollars and offspring because there are more showdowns to come.

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JohnyCanuck

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Thu May-13-10 06:40 AM
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7. I can see how......

the next time the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff need to plan and implement a false flag attack a la Operation Northwoods it should be a piece of cake.

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