Time's Battleland: Cyberwar fears: disaggregating the threat

Is that China over there, stealing everything?

My man Mark Thompson puts up a cheeky post yesterday that I most heartily approved of. In it he speaks of cyberwar worrywarts and rightly fears that, as the terror war recedes in some priority, new little piggies approach the DoD trough. And as these cyberwar advocates find such a prime target in China, I would note that their efforts merge with those of the big-war crowd that also hopes to regain ascendancy - despite the overall budget crunch.

Now, Mark gets immediately taken to task by none other the great Bruce Sterling over at Wired (HT, Craig Nordin) . . .

Read the entire post at Time's Battleland.

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[R. Jordan Prescott]

Another good caveat/rebuttal to cyberwar hype can be found at Infinity Journal
"‘Cyberwar’ is not coming"
David Betz
Abstract: In this article David Betz finds much similarity between today’s talk of decisive ‘cyberwar’ and the overblown claims of the prophets of air power almost a hundred years ago.

http://www.infinityjournal.com/article/23/Cyberwar_is_not_coming

Cheers, RJP, House of Marathon