From Pine View Farm

Bombs for Google Bombs 0

This is a gross over-reaction to making a little-visited website unavailable for a few hours.

In future, a US president could consider economic sanctions, cyber-retaliation or a military strike if key US computer systems were attacked, officials have said recently.

The planning was given added urgency by a cyber-attack last month on the defence contractor, Lockheed Martin.

It is silly and stupid and betrays fundamental ignorance of networking on a conceptual (as opposed to a technical) level, a lust for perpetual war, or a basis for endless consulting contracts.

I’m betting on one or both of the last two choices.

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