06 August 2011

Want to plan a cyber war? Ask Bruce Willis

If you want to plan a cyber war, look no further than the Bruce Willis movie, Live Free or Die Hard. That may sound fishy, but that is what a former government cyber war expert told the Defconsecurity conference today in Las Vegas.

Chris Cleary, a former senior planner at the U.S. Cyber Command and manager of cyber strategy at security firm Sparta, isn't allowed to talk about the government's plans for cyber war. But he was able to analyze the 2007 Bruce Willis film, about a terrorist-hacker named Thomas Gabriel who seeks to bring down the nation through a series of cyber attacks. Willis supplies the firepower as a good hacker tries to fight back.

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