
@War
by Shane Harris · first published 2014
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The United States military now views cyberspace as the "fifth domain" of warfare, alongside land, air, sea, and space. The Pentagon, the National Security Agency, and the CIA field teams of hackers who launch cyber strikes against enemy targets--and amass staggering quantities of personal information on all of us. These same virtual warriors, along with a growing band of private-sector counterparts, are charged with defending us against the vast array of criminals, terrorists, and foreign governments who attack us with ever-increasing frequency and effectiveness. Journalist Shane Harris infilt
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The book '@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex' by Shane Harris from The Daily Beast is very good and talks about the obsessions with offensive weapons. And the embarrassingly bad defensive posture the US has via policy failure (ie: focusing on private-public…
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