US warns: hack us, and we might bomb you

Ohio Joe

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Wed May-18-11 07:46 AM
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US warns: hack us, and we might bomb you

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/us-warns-of-military-response-to-severe-cyberattacks.ars

Whats next... Talk about my mother and I'll bomb you... sheesh.

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Poll_Blind

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Wed May-18-11 07:51 AM
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1. Thinly vieled assassination threat against leakers, WikiLeaks, etc?

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Very_Boring_Name

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Wed May-18-11 07:53 AM
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2. How do you go from "hackers" to "leakers"?

Two completely different things. None of the information obtained by wikileaks was done through hacking.

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Poll_Blind

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Wed May-18-11 09:16 AM
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7. Of the New York Times, WikiLeaks and the Cablegate Leaker, the US...

...identified WikiLeaks and the Cablegate Leaker as having committed the same type of crime- even having been in cahoots, although there is absolutely no evidence for this. I don't see anything definite about the parameters of the threat, just that they're making it.

:shrug:

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Ohio Joe

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Wed May-18-11 07:57 AM
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3. I'm not sure...

As I'm thinking about this, I'm not really sure who or what it is aimed at. It could be as you suggest but... it's not like we have been mincing words about who we are going to try to assassinate these days. In addition, as far as I am aware, a lot of the major hacking jobs have been coming from Russia and China... WTF? Are we threatening them with this statement? I just don't know.

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Marblehead

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Wed May-18-11 08:14 AM
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4. this will make it much

easier to bomb who ever they want. Oh they hacked us, ka boom

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Javaman

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Wed May-18-11 08:49 AM
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5. Bullshit and bluster...

if this was the case the US should have been boming china a long time ago.

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CrispyQ

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Wed May-18-11 09:08 AM
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6. Ahhh, don't worry.

"Military force will only be used as a last resort after other diplomatic and economic remedies are attempted, ..."

See, everything's fine.

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