The cyber warfare front is a changing and untested battlefield that every foreign government wants to control. Many have always assumed that the United States carried out cyber attacks but today we are finally learning some details about the operations that have been ordered. In Iraq the US hacked into Al Qaeda computers and altered data that changed the rendezvous point to a pre-set destination. The destination was a trap setup by the US military forces and can be assumed to only be one of many infiltrations into Al Qaeda computers.
When George W. Bush wanted to slow down Iran's nuclear program he ordered hackers to try and undermine the operations by altering computer files on Iranian based computers. The results are not known at this point.
All of this is based around President Obama's soon to be announced plan to expand the 17 billion dollar operation that protects US government and other essential data.
In a speech that could be given as soon as Wednesday Obama is expected to discuss the critical nature of protecting our data centers but he will not discuss offensive operations or capabilities.
It's mindsets like that that terrorist groups like Al Qeada rely on, because people think it's a silly threat and just when people drop their defences, bang, Al Qeada attack, and everyone is in shock that these people are capable of such an attack.
We've got to take terrorist groups like this much more seriously.
The point was a hell of a lot more serious than "LOL! al qauda has computers?"
Because Generals need to be able to surf for pron from their office too!
you mean the US is actualy going to get some security that works? LMAO
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