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"Cyber War" Is Just the Latest Grab for Defense Money 161

New submitter Curseyoukhan writes "The phrase 'cyber war' is being used to scare us into coughing up money and liberties, just like 'anarchist' once was, and 'terror' still is. To quote H.L. Mencken, 'The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.'"
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"Cyber War" Is Just the Latest Grab for Defense Money

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  • Hobgoblins! (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @08:09AM (#39855681)

    has anyone considered this latest Hobgoblin threat to the United States' civil security? We need to begin deploying elven rangers at our borders. It's the only way to be sure. I propose an Elven Archer High Command, taking pieces from DoHS, DOD, NSA, FBI, and other agencies which are clearly not as focused on the Hobgoblin threat as they need to be. We cannot allow American lives to be thrown away by caving into the Hobgoblin agenda.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @08:23AM (#39855771)

    You just to create some synergy by leveraging the Best Practices of both Open Source and Proprietary Technologies.

    And wear a condom.

  • by AngryDeuce ( 2205124 ) on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @08:28AM (#39855795)
    [citation needed]
  • by Talderas ( 1212466 ) on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @08:46AM (#39855917)

    No.

    No no.

    No no no.

    We must begin deploying DWARF (Designated Warfare Advance Recon Forces) to defend against the hobgoblin menace. The best part is that all we need to send seven of them out with just a pickaxe and an axe and they are quite adept at constructing fortresses to defend against the hobgoblin menace. With a little bit of oversight we can make sure to avoid the lava cataclysm events that DWARF is prone to causing.

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