17 August 2011

Pentagon wastes time defining cyberwar rather than trying to fight one | #nationalsecurity #infosec #DoD

The U.S. military command has decided the online world is the fifth domain in which to conduct warfare – in addition to land, sea air, land and space. Seventh if you include Congressional budget hearings; eighth is you include the global media.

According to its own admissions and the evaluation of the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) – the SAT grading service for the federal government – the Pentagon has been trying and failing for 20 years to define, defend against and fight acts of cyberwar, but in so chaotic and fractious a fashion that the result is very little practical defense against hacks of any type.

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