The One Sided Cyber War 215
Curseyoukhan writes with a skeptical perspective on the U.S. Cyberwar posturing. From the article: "The first shot was probably the release of Stuxnet sometime during or before 2009. Even though no one has officially claimed responsibility everyone knows who was behind it. Stuxnet hit with a bang and did a whole lot of damage to Iran's uranium-enrichment capabilities. We followed up Stuxnet with Flame — the Ebola virus of spyware. What did the Iranians fire back with? A series of massive, on-going and ineffective DDoS attacks on American banks. This is a disproportionate response but not in the way military experts usually mean that phrase. It's the equivalent of someone stealing your car and you throwing an ever-increasing number of eggs at his house in response. It's fascinating that Iran continues to do nothing more despite the fact that U.S. critical infrastructure currently has the defensive posture of a dog waiting for a belly rub. Keep that in mind the next time you hear that a 'cyber Pearl Harbor' is imminent."
They should retaliate by posting movies and music (Score:5, Funny)
They should threaten to make available copies of movies and music online for free.
Iran doesn't allow computers or internet (Score:4, Funny)
Muhammad said young men might use them to look at women's ankles. So their hackers are a little behind the curve compared to the non-Muslim-nutball world.
Re:The reason a "cyber Pearl Harbor" isn't imminen (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The reason a "cyber Pearl Harbor" isn't imminen (Score:4, Funny)
Do you know of any way I could get hold of these people? I would really like to assist them in achieving their goal. :)
Re:The reason a "cyber Pearl Harbor" isn't imminen (Score:5, Funny)
There's a documentary about this you should see called "Live Free or Die Hard." It's even got the guy from the Mac commercials in it, so you know they're computer experts.