*This is quite interesting, because it looks beyond a standard global-guerrilla cybarmageddon (which becomes, as one might guess, a sharp defeat for the whatever's left of current global order). After this lost cyberwar, the formerly global Internet becomes a relentlessly secured nationalist police-state operating system. A "dot-secure."
*A "dot-secure" is kind of a China model, really. Everybody behind the Great Firewall in their own Middle Kingdom. Makes you wonder who would want to finance and launch a massive, deglobalizing cyberwar that Balkanizes the Internet in this fashion. Hmmmm. So many candidates!
http://www.pinewswire.net/2010/02/security-expert-us-would-lose-cyberwar/
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McConnell, director of national intelligence from 2007 to 2009, (((read: not a blogger crank, but an actual national-security apparatchik))) predicted that the U.S. government would eventually get heavily involved in protecting cybersecurity and in regulating private approaches to cybersecurity.
Testifying before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, (((read: not blowing smoke on a blog))) McConnell also predicted that the U.S. would make little improvements in its cybersecurity before a “catastrophic” attack will cause the government to get involved. (((Not exactly farfetched news, because I can keenly remember this being said back in 1990.)))
“We will not mitigate this risk,” said McConnell, now executive vice president for the national security business at Booz Allen Hamilton. “We will talk about it, we will wave our hands, we’ll have a bill, but we will not mitigate this risk.” (((And given that 20 year track record since 1990, one can only concur. He's right. It's obviously true. Y'know WHY nobody ever mitigates this risk? Not in twenty long years? Same reason nobody ever 'mitigated' the risks in the banking system. "Risks? WHAT risks? We're makin' out like bandits!")))
After a major attack, the government will step in to secure the Internet, McConnell predicted. (((Well, whatever is LEFT of the government, anyway.))) “We’re going to morph the Internet from something that’s referred to generally as dot-com to something that we call dot-secure,” he said. “When [online] transactions move billions of dollars, or when transactions route trains up and down the East Coast or control electric power … the basic attributes of security must be endorsed.” (...)
