US Air Force halts plans to establish a Cyber Command The US Air Force has suspended plans to build a provisional unit designed to make it the dominant service in cyberspace. According to NextGov, top Air Force officials put an immediate halt to the establishment of a Cyber Command, which had been scheduled to be operational by October. Development will now be delayed until new …
If I heard the radio right, just in the past few days the USAF just received it's new, permanent command general following the firing of the civilian & military bosses after the two incidents of flying armed nukes over the continental U.S. (without realizing it...) and the nuke fuse that ended up in Okinawa or somewhere way were it shouldn't have been.
Anyway, my guess is he's put a halt to all the peripheral stuff until they can get the basic SOPs clicking again.
Oh, and with the guns of August once again sounding in the distance, figuring out how to fight a two front war against Iran and Russia. Because God, and every other sentient being, knows Bush, McCain, and Obama are all fully capable of stumbling into it.
If the US build Skynet, they will have to find ways to prevent it from being used against them:
1) lock up everyone capable of looking for accounts with empty or simple passwords.
2) publish some fake UFO reports to keep conspiracy theorists busy.
I am not sure why the US bothers with armed forces. They should just threaten to sue anyone who attacks them.
Microsoft don't have anything to do with your BIOS...
Also, I wonder what sort of software and hardware they'll be using... you think they'll have guys sat at computer terminals, or a full 3D VR representation of the internet?
Stick a cable in the back of some of the more major routers worldwide and you could harvest vast amounts of data to help create a coherent picture of what's happenning in the virtual world!
Actually, with a decent way of visualising the data and said hookup to those more major routers you could manipulate the data as it went along very simply.
Ah, t'would be great to have that sort of access...
The DOD needs to make a new branch specifically for cyberwarfare if they deem it necessary (aside from the NSA).
That said, why doesn't the NSA just handle it? Or do we need a specific command complete with Media Relations officers so that dipshit Americans can be assured their data is safe via canned statements?
The secret service is now responsible for "civilian" internet protection along with Homeland Security and the Justice Department (trust me, I'm not feeling safe or secure).
Defense Secretary Gates had long been demanding the Air Force to do more in today's fighting (building/fielding drones, sending boots on the ground to help fight) instead of focusing on stealth fighters and satellites.
It IS "being incorporated in the BIOS code."
The recent theft of a client's computer, and its subsequent appearance on my remote support dashboard, lead me to speaking with the police investigator, who asked me to install "Computrace/Lojack for Laptops" through the remote client.
He then tells me that most newer machines from Dell, HP, Toshiba, etc already have “Computrace/Lojack” on the BIOS, and it only takes the service tag number and a simple call from the local sheriff/constable to turn it on. No NSA/MI5 involvement required.
See: http://www.absolute.com/products-bios-enabled-computers.asp
Where's your Linux security now, Moses?
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