U.S. Could Send Military to Deal With Hackers

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[citation][nom]pelov[/nom]they climbin' in your windows, snatchin' your dataz uptryin' to steal 'emso y'all need to hide your porn, hide your botnets, hide your encryption keyscause they raidin' everybody out here.[/citation]
lol...your comment made me laugh like never before...tks for the laugh

 

[Guest]

This is a horribly misleading sensationalist article that makes the author look like a nitwit.

Next time they may want to consider reading the actual report before spewing this drivel.

 

[Travis Beane]

[citation][nom]gamoniac[/nom]For thosse who disagree, hackers do not hack into the white house to steal your visa card number.If you don't think a national defense is necessary against hackers, DO NOT cry or piss your pants when terrorists/hackers hijack your airlines' computer system and initiate a mass auto-pilot into the mountains. Or when they shuts down power plants in the middle of -20C winter. It is within our flipping rights to defense our nation. This is national security matter.[/citation]
That wouldn't be so bad. The power company cut our power in -30C because they lost the payment.

 

[STravis]

[citation][nom]stingstang[/nom]The amount of ignorant BS in these comments is inexcusable. You guys will believe anything you hear about the Big Bad Government, then make up whatever sci-fi BULLSHT you can think of to try to make a point. I'm in the Air Force, and I'll tell you right now that we use the same internet as any of you, plus a card with a chip on it to get in to secure websites we use for work.Also, do you really have to go and say that putting a picture of kittens on a website will get you shot? Don't be dumb, and everyone else, PLEASE don't be so easily brainwashed by these people trying to grab your attention through fear.[/citation]

You may be wasting your breath on the tin foil hat wearers....just sayin'

 

[STravis]

[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]Bunch of BS.This is just another attack on open ended free speech of the internet(aka your Freedom).Here's why:1. The military is completely immune to anything that goes on in the internet(even shutdowns). They use entirely different networking protocols, languages, security algorithms, physical networks, sat's, etc etc. That includes high level government transmissions.... I know this. I was in the military. These guys are hardcore.2. The boogey man tactic of saying that a errant virus can shutdown the electric grid is BS. Last I heard it still takes a man, or woman, to open that valve or throw that switch, at a power plant.3. The FCC has been openly attacking the internet since day 1 of obama's inauguration. Control the information, Control the sheeple....4. And most important whos business is it that the government has a say in how to control a *PRIVATE* Network?????? Last I heard, NONE.[/citation]

Number #2 already happened - NE blackout of 2003.. People in the know will tell you that computers were found to have been infected with the Red Alert virus..

 

[guardianangel42]

[citation][nom]ProDigit10[/nom]Ow great! Yet at the same time the US was responsible for the cyber attack on a nuclear plant in Iran, so now it justifies them to invade US?They know no other country will agree to such a law, because if they would implement it, and have a cyber attack from US or Russia, they make no chance!In my mind it's just another way to bully the weak, and have more authority over them![/citation]
Actually it's significantly more likely that that was conducted by Israel if we're talking about the same Stuxnet.

We're powerful, but we don't actually have the resources to everything we can dream up. Heck, most major work is conducted by contractors not the DoD. Boeing, Jack Northrop, Lockheed Martin, and many, many more manufacturers develop this stuff for us.

My dad holds a Top Secret Clearance in the DoD and he's willing to bet that it was Israel and no, he isn't a very good liar.

 

[guardianangel42]

[citation][nom]toastninja17[/nom]Yeah, well first actually take into consideration the gravity of the threat that said hacker is posing...and not just begin targeting 15 year-olds who just torrent movies and music. Then again, that's not really a hacker, but my point is really assess the situation before you decide to take a damn n00b tube to their computer.[/citation]

As if the DoD could cut through the necessary beuracracy, get clearance from higher ups, and then pass the order down, wasting likely millions of dollars in the process, for something trivial.

Oh wait, this is the government. Who the knows what they'll do. In 2009 they pass universal healthcare. In 2011 they killed Osama bin Laden and the president advocated for extended action in Afghanistan.

Politicians are very unpredictable, they might decide to make an example out of some poor teenager attempting to do a DDoS attack with a bunch of his friends on the DoD website.

 

[igot1forya]

I see a PSA from "Seal Team 6" with their faces blurred out that says "Bin Laden was a n00b, we p0wn3d him! If you hack, we're coming for you"

 

[amstech]

I am sure the Toms guys know this, but hackers are people that attempt or try to get in, and if they do they don't change/remove/add anything they just prove a point.
Crackers however are out to do damage.

 

[hoofhearted]

The USA needs to stop helping these assbag countries that all they do is hate on us in return. No gratitude whatsoever. We need to use our military prowess and start planting oil rigs of our own in the Middle East. Hell, I bet we could even hide some rigs in Pakistan without them even knowing.

Look where all this 'help' got us:
https/www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2187rank.html

 

[cookoy]

Play fair.

 

[korsen]

http/www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/house-gets-ready-vote-new-worldwide-war

house trying to approve a blank military check with unidentified enemies or borders. start acting.

 

[fir_ser]

[citation][nom]DXRick[/nom]Well, what country will we invade next because of CMD's (Computers of Mass Destruction)?[/citation]
LOL.
But unfortunately it can be true.

 

[redzoneos]

Ah the classic brains vs braun debate.

 

[rrmyguy]

[citation][nom]Igot1forya[/nom]I see a PSA from "Seal Team 6" with their faces blurred out that says "Bin Laden was a n00b, we p0wn3d him! If you hack, we're coming for you"[/citation]
[citation][nom]guardianangel42[/nom]As if the DoD could cut through the necessary beuracracy, get clearance from higher ups, and then pass the order down, wasting likely millions of dollars in the process, for something trivial.Oh wait, this is the government. Who the knows what they'll do. In 2009 they pass universal healthcare. In 2011 they killed Osama bin Laden and the president advocated for extended action in Afghanistan.Politicians are very unpredictable, they might decide to make an example out of some poor teenager attempting to do a DDoS attack with a bunch of his friends on the DoD website.[/citation]

I'm sorry, but if someone is stupid enough to attempt something like that, they shouldn't be described as a "poor teenager" they should be described as very stupid and they deserve to be punished for something like that. Malicious hacking gives the hacking community a bad name.... it sad and pathetic.period.

 

[eddieroolz]

About time the US government asserted its rights.