.. Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the Pentagon's new Cyber Command(ARFORCYBER) said: "We have to have offensive capabilities, to,
in real time, shut down somebody trying to attack us," Earlier Keith
Alexander compared cyber attacks with weapons of mass destruction and
according to his recent statements the US is planning offensive
application of the new warfare ...
.. While Washington is accusing other countries of aiding and sponsoring cyber terrorism (Statistic shows that most of cyber attacks against US informational systems were made from China), the US special forces are training new personnel for cyber wars ...
.. The command - made up of 1,000 elite military hackers and spies
under one four-star general - is the linchpin of the Pentagon's new
strategy and is slated to become fully operational Oct. 1.-
Washington Post reports (6). The Defense Department has “15,000 networks
and 7 million computing devices in use in dozens of countries, with
90,000 people working to maintain them and it depends heavily on
commercial industry for its network operations” (7). Attracting allies
and private companies working in the sphere of IT and security the US
plans to establish the new order in the global cyber space ...
.. Considering all this what may we expect? It is quite likely that we may
expect spying by means of tabs and backdoors in software sold by
well-known companies such as Microsoft, as well as an informational
blockade, limiting access to alternative sources of information. Thus
from October 1, all the achievements of the informational age can be
challenged.
US gets ready to knock the world offline
Leonid SAVIN | 02.09.2010http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2010/09/02/us-gets-ready-to-knock-the-world-offline.html
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