Time's Battleland: MILITARY SPENDING On Cyber Warfare, the American Public Is Constantly Being Played by the Pentagon

From a Washington Post piece describing “Plan X,” the Pentagon’s new push to develop cutting-edge offensive cyber weapons:

It makes sense “to take this on right now,” said Richard M. George, a former National Security Agency cyberdefense official. “Other countries are preparing for a cyberwar. If we’re not pushing the envelope in cyber, somebody else will.”

Read the entire post at Time's Battleland blog.

Comments

[Louis Heberlein]

"The American Public is being constantly played by the Pentagon" ... just as it was through most of the Cold War. That was and is necessary to motivate / caution the nut state of the time until it matures. For this reason I store Tom's web site in my Information War bookmark. ;-)