(((Aw man, just wander over there and look at those links.
And then try to imagine what the Internet looks like when these daring cybermilitary innovations have been digested by the Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, Israelis, Taiwanese,
Venezuelans, Nigerians, and a whole bunch of black-global gangs, militias, mafias and mercenaries you've never heard of.)))
Link: Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers | Danger Room from Wired.com.
"The government is growing increasingly interested in waging war online. The Air Force recently put together a "Cyberspace Command," with a charter to rule networks the way its fighter jets rule the skies. The Department of Homeland Security, Darpa, and other agencies are teaming up for a five-year, $30 billion "national cybersecurity initiative."
That includes an electronic test range, where federally-funded hackers can test out the latest electronic attacks.
"You used to need an army to wage a war," a recent Air Force commercial notes. "Now, all you need is an Internet connection."
On Monday, the Air Force Research Laboratory introduced a two-year, $11 million effort (((peanuts – the Storm Worm gang must make that kind of money in a week))) to put together hardware and software tools for "Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement."
"Of interest are any and all techniques to enable user and/or root level access," a request for proposals notes, "to both fixed (PC) or mobile computing platforms... any and all operating systems, patch levels, applications and hardware." This isn't just some computer science study, mind you; "research efforts under this program are expected to result in complete functional capabilities."
Unlike an Air Force colonel's proposal, to knock down enemy websites with military botnets, the Research Lab is encouraging a sneaky, "low and slow" approach. The preferred attack consists of lying quiet, and then "stealthily exfiltrat[ing] information" from adversaries' networks.
But, in the end, the Air Force wants to see all kinds of "techniques and technologies" to "Deceive, Deny, Disrupt, Degrade, [or] Destroy" hostile systems. And "in addition to these main concepts," the Research Lab would like to see studies into "Proactive Botnet Defense Technology Development," the "reinvent[ion of] the network protocol stack" and new antennas, based on carbon nanotubes.... (((Oh wait a minute, did it HAVE to be "carbon nanotubes"?)))
