NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers

Re:NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers by sliverstorm on Saturday July 28, 2012 @09:22PM (#4307148)

I believe that cyber-warfare, while fanciful-sounding in name, is going to be a part of the future whether we like it or not. In which case, the NSA seems the best positioned to conduct the USA's end of it.

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Re:NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers by davidhollander on Saturday July 28, 2012 @10:48PM (#4307338)

If this is a justified belief rather than a faith-based belief, you'll need to offer a refutation of Thomas Rid's "Cyber War Will Not Take Place", which holds that cyber-war is contradictory because acts of cyber-war do not fulfill the definition of acts of war: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01402390.2011.608...

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Re:NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers by sliverstorm on Saturday July 28, 2012 @11:00PM (#4307368)

Ok, so cyber-warfare is a shitty word. I know that, but people understand what it refers to, which is why I used it.

Would you be happier if I said I expect cyber-sabotage, cyber-espionage, and cyber-subversion to be important parts of future conflicts?

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