Cyberwar I.

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Cyberwarfare I.

How is this for being apropos? This might very well have been the thing that Admiral Mike Mullen had on his mind when he mentioned that cyberwarfare directed against the U.S. by a hostile foreign power is an existential threat? Thanks to the BBC for the info on this matter!

"US builds net for cyber war games"

"The US system will be used as a test bed for Internet security projects"

"The United States government is building its own 'scale model' of the Internet to carry out cyber war games."

"When ready, it will function as a test-bed for defensive and possibly offensive technologies"

"[it] would allow researchers to carry-out experiments 'in days rather than the weeks it currently takes,'"

"Unlike the real Internet, the in-house version could be wiped or reset between tests"

DARPA, the Defense Department agency that develops this sort of hardware and software, building a virtual Internet. An analog of the real thing, but only virtually. A concept - - an "unreal" world of what is in large measure an "unreal"world. NOT to be understood as a substitute for the Internet, but as what is called a "test-bed", where "experiments" can be conducted.

And can be used for test and verifying the validity of both OFFENSIVE and DEFENSIVE techniques, methods and measures to protect American Internet and IT interests AND if necessary, CARRY the WAR to the enemy, whoever that enemy may be!!

One of the two existential threats to the U.S. IS being taken very seriously by those in the Defense Department!

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