21 Feb 2010
Old Trick Threatens the Newest Weapons

CNN ran a special tonight on a wargame held recently called cyber.shockwave. A group of hackers (state organized or not) had managed to take down the telecom and power grids in the US ... pretty ridiculous scenerio, really. I think they've completely missed the point of cyberwar. The real dangers of a war in cyberspace was covered by the New York Times last October. Read it below.

Despite a six-year effort to build trusted computer chips for military systems, the Pentagon now manufactures in secure facilities run by American companies only about 2 percent of the more than $3.5 billion of integrated circuits bought annually for use in military gear.

(link) [New York Times]

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