America's War on the Web

Started by TehBorken, Apr 03 06 03:11

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TehBorken

The Sunday Herald is reporting that while the US is continuing to pursue traditional means of protecting national security, they are also planning to launch a new wave of '[a href="vny!://www.sundayherald.com/54975"]information warfare[/a]' to help combat a perceived growing threat of IT security.

From the article:

'The Pentagon has already signed off $383 million to force through the document's recommendations by 2009. Military and intelligence sources in the US talk of "a revolution in the concept of warfare". The report orders three new developments in America's approach to warfare [...] the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet in order to dominate the realm of communications, prevent digital attacks on the US and its allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-attacks against enemies.'

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          A summary with a bit more information (and without horrible formatting errors), including a link to the actual document, [a href="vny!://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/" title="gwu.edu" rel="nofollow"]can be found here[/a] . Apparently it's been declassified for a couple months now...but better to get this info out a little late then never I suppose.

The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.