Re:At Dawn We Sleep
by precisioncoder on Friday December 07, 2012 @09:17AM
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Who is going to declare war with the strongest military power and most warlike nation on the planet? I believe in having minimum standards for cyber security in order to provide reasonable security for data but this seems incredibly alarmist. It seems like it should have the headline: "War on Terror II: This time it's going cyber!"
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Declare war? Which century do you live in? The US has not declared war in over 70 _years_.
In fact one of the biggest issues with a cyber attack is that we may never know where it came from.
You're joking right?
If you believe what you're saying, I am reminded of 1984.
June 5, 42. USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
It has not declared war since.
How do you detect that any given country is behind an attack launched by a botnet of American computers?
Heck we still don't know that it was the US who were behind Stuxnet.
You're talking about formal declarations of war.
Afghanistan? Iraq? Vietnam?
Going to war might not be semantically the same as declaring war, but that doesn't change a thing, within the context at hand.
Do you understand the technical reasons making it hard to get a reliable 'return address' for someone who cracked a system?
I do.
I also call BS on:
1. The US has not declared war in over 70 _years_. -> Denial of objective reality.
2. In fact one of the biggest issues with a cyber attack is that we may never know where it came from. -> OMG must control internet.