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Next to being baffled that this comes out into the world, I can only laugh at this. Be careful what you wish for USA, You want cyber warfare? You just got it.

Next to being baffled that this comes out into the world, I can only laugh at this. Be careful what you wish for USA, You want cyber warfare? You just got it. Just imagine, somebody with the intention to do harm having control over drones like that. It would be the ultimate remote strike, using their own systems, thát would rock their world the world!

gaius 14y ago
You don't deserve that downvote. Obama has been crowing in the NYT about his sK1Lz in cyberwarfare against the Iranians. What did he expect to happen?
- natrius 14y ago
  My understanding is that U.S. cyberwarfare ended up in the NYT because of leaks and good journalism, not because Obama was touting it.
  - gaius 14y ago
    In an election year, when the Obama administration has a track record of zero tolerance of leaks and whistleblowers?
    - natrius 14y ago
      A quick Googling uncovered the controversy about the leaks, which I wasn't aware of. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/06/news/la-pn-mccain-calls-for-investigation-of-obama-administration-leaks-20120606 http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/06/news/la-pn-mccain-ca...
planetguy 14y ago
The US most definitively does not want cyber warfare, which is why a bunch of military types have been going around for years warning about the possibility and the need to harden systems against it. Cyber warfare is bad news for the US because it's one of the areas of warfare in which the US doesn't have an obvious dominance.
- SchizoDuckie 14y ago
  Flame, Stuxnet?...
  - planetguy 14y ago
    Sure, just because you don't want a type of warfare doesn't mean you're not going to engage in it. This happens to be the kind of warfare which doesn't "escalate" as such -- certain countries will continue to attack US systems at exactly the same rate regardless of whether the US is attacking 'em back.
    - gaius 14y ago
      Iran could turn around tomorrow and reassign everyone from its nuclear weapons programme to cyberwarfare instead.
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gaius 14y ago

You don't deserve that downvote. Obama has been crowing in the NYT about his sK1Lz in cyberwarfare against the Iranians. What did he expect to happen?

natrius 14y ago
My understanding is that U.S. cyberwarfare ended up in the NYT because of leaks and good journalism, not because Obama was touting it.
- gaius 14y ago
  In an election year, when the Obama administration has a track record of zero tolerance of leaks and whistleblowers?
  - natrius 14y ago
    A quick Googling uncovered the controversy about the leaks, which I wasn't aware of. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/06/news/la-pn-mccain-calls-for-investigation-of-obama-administration-leaks-20120606 http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/06/news/la-pn-mccain-ca...

planetguy 14y ago

The US most definitively does not want cyber warfare, which is why a bunch of military types have been going around for years warning about the possibility and the need to harden systems against it. Cyber warfare is bad news for the US because it's one of the areas of warfare in which the US doesn't have an obvious dominance.

SchizoDuckie 14y ago
Flame, Stuxnet?...
- planetguy 14y ago
  Sure, just because you don't want a type of warfare doesn't mean you're not going to engage in it. This happens to be the kind of warfare which doesn't "escalate" as such -- certain countries will continue to attack US systems at exactly the same rate regardless of whether the US is attacking 'em back.
  - gaius 14y ago
    Iran could turn around tomorrow and reassign everyone from its nuclear weapons programme to cyberwarfare instead.

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