http://www.homeland1.com/print.asp?act=print&vid=873689
"Dorothy Denning, professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, may have said it best: "Soon, every interstate conflict, however minor, may be accompanied by some form of hacker war that is beyond the control of ruling governments."
(((Dorothy Denning can be counted on to say something sane even in the weirdest, craziest hacker articles. "Citizen hackers" sound like a really nifty coinage, kinda heroic even, at least until your "citizen hackers" do something really embarrassing, like, say, wiretapping the Watergate. Then somebody with a uniform has gotta go round these spooks up, and it's like, wait a sec, lookah all these get-out-of-jail free cards that have been distributed by the President's re-election committee.)))
(((The deniable patriot hacktivists who work for Russia, China and India can talk just as patriotically as any Fox News fan. So, if you're from USA and hammering Russia for underhanded cyberattacks, you've gotta figure out what America's own "citizen hacker vigilantes" are up to someplace. And your answer is, you don't have the foggiest idea. Not a clue, brother.)))
(((It gets worse. Once you get to be a really effective "citizen hacker," you're gonna discover from your numerous offshored online buddies that it's a lot more profitable to become a "citizen hacker" for any entity who's willing to pay. In which case, there's gonna be permanent out-of-control cyberwar, whether there's an "Interstate conflict" or not. The tail wags the dog, in spookdom. Remove the civilian oversight and the operatives drift right toward the business model.)))
(((Could be anybody. The guy next door. Great job for the ladies, covert cyberwar.)))
"Vigilantes and their tradecraft
"It would be impossible to profile extremist "hacktivists"; they are men, women, young, old, ex-military, businessmen, lawyers, housewives, and techies. They live in big cities or small towns and their reasons for engaging and methods of infiltration vary. Some have come out of the shadows, but most use pseudonyms and are colorful characters, and are often as intriguing as their work...."
(((That's a heck of a website, "homeland1." Got some awesome retail surveillance drones in there.)))
http://www.homeland1.com/homeland-security-products/unmanned-aerial-vehicles-uav/
via @netwar, who is really up to speed on these issues even though I have no idea who he, she or they is and I'm not sure that it even makes any sense to care
(((This just in: French netwar versus British state power, the plastic disposable augmented-reality drone edition.)))
