Is There a Cyberwar, and Is the US Losing It?

kenblakely writes "BusinessWeek is running a story asserting that the 'US is Losing the Global Cyberwar.' This whole cyberwar thing has been discussed a few times on Slashdot where the Chinese are asserted to be using cyberwarfare to attain military superiority. And, of course, there is the whole Russia-Georgia thing. Even the US military is getting in on the action, and the fear of a cyber Pearl Harbor seems almost palpable. I'm curious what the Slashdot crowd thinks about the growing fascination with 'cyberwar': hype to get more money and create new force structure, source of the next world war, or somewhere in between?"

Cyberwar?

[kamikazearun]

There is no "cyberwar". BusinessWeek is losing it.

Re:let me get thsi straight

[Anonymous Coward]

[citation needed]

I'm sorry...

[GFree678]

... but all this talk about cyberwar just makes me think PEW! PEW! PEW! for some reason.

Let me guess...

[NickFortune]

the Chinese are asserted to be using cyberwarfare to attain military superiority

So how does that work? They've uploaded a soldier to a webserver somewhere, and now they're going to download him hundreds of times?

Dammned fiendish of them, is all I can say.

Re:Cyberwar?

[networkconsultant]

I'm all for paranoia it means more billable time.

dude

[circletimessquare]

my tin foil hat says "made in china" on the side

should i worry?

no problem

[gzipped_tar]

We have already survived several cyber (holy) wars. Well, after all the losses and sacrifices, I still prefer VI to EMACS.

Re:Digg indeed sucks.

[Mister Whirly]

So that proves a 2 year old has crap taste in music.
What's next? "2 year old baby Anna likes crap music and also stupid television shows featuring morons in costumes"

Re:Espionage

[Tablizer]

Maybe the US people like wars so much and thus only see things in those terms ... And that's why they have "war against drugs", "war against terror", "war against cancer", "war against obesity".

Goodie, I can blame my tubby tummy on China. Their psyops made me eat those donuts.
         

Whitehouse has been compromised for years

[pseudorand]

White House itself had to deal with unidentifiable intrusions in its networks.

It's hilarious that they're just finding out about this now. I remember visiting whitehouse.com years ago and it had been 0wned and turned into a porn site. And if you go there now, it still is! You'd think they'd have fixed that by now.

Re:Espionage

[T Murphy]

If that doesn't work, then they would be starting military exercises off the coast of Japan

Since this is cyberwar we're talking here, do you mean we'll send floating LAN parties over there? Or are we just going to display how well we can clog those tubes? I'm sorry, but Stevens is no longer available to spearhead a project like this, so I'm afraid you're mistaken.