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The ghost in the machine 2

August 14, 2008 - 2:17 pm - by Richard Fernandez
cedarford
2008-08-14 18:12:53

Sigintel – Where there are comments allowed, I was overwhelmed by the number of pro-Russian comments and as we’ve seen here at BC, the psyops poster is sometimes nuanced and hard to detect. An American Cyber Army operated somewhat like the Civil Air Patrol,that could be called on to fight a cyberwar, might be something that the youth of America could get behind?

1. Wrong on “soviet agents” being the ones questioning the wisdom of nutty neocon worshippers saying we “owed” it to the “noble freedom-lovers” of Georgia to start WWIII on their behalf.
I think the term you overlooked was “sane Americans” who see no compulsion to go to war for Georgia after a reckless attack they launched on S Ossetia.

2. But you are dead right on the need to have the US get serious about cyber war, China espionage and the US setting up a volunteer civilian corps, aided by considerable US funding (Want free broadband? Sign up for US Cybercorps!).

And, with ChiCom, Russian, Israeli, and French infiltration of agencies, think tanks and companies with vital commercial and defense secrets being stolen? Eliminate certain “diversity” federal contract criteria and instead factor in how much each entity is doing to secure itself against foreign attack.