infopolitics » cyberwar http://infopolitics.net Understanding the Internet and information in politics Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:15:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Remember: The U.S. is also big on cyber OFFENSE http://infopolitics.net/2011/08/remember-the-u-s-is-also-big-on-cyber-offense/ http://infopolitics.net/2011/08/remember-the-u-s-is-also-big-on-cyber-offense/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:37:36 +0000 Graham Webster http://infopolitics.net/?p=172 At Motherboard.tv, Alex Pasternack and I took a look at the U.S. cyber offensive, one that’s far more secret but seems to match its worries about defense in scale.

I think it’s worth checking out.

]]> http://infopolitics.net/2011/08/remember-the-u-s-is-also-big-on-cyber-offense/feed/ 0 On ‘cyber war’ not existing http://infopolitics.net/2010/04/on-cyber-war-not-existing/ http://infopolitics.net/2010/04/on-cyber-war-not-existing/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:04:00 +0000 Graham Webster http://infopolitics.net/?p=105 Some time ago, the press spent some energy on a report by a U.S. military contractor on preparing for online threats from China. Wired this week has a solid contribution to the issue. It’s opinionated, but it opens with a provocative statement on the part of a White House staffer with responsibilities for cyber security. Read it.

Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing.

“There is no cyberwar,” Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.

“I think that is a terrible metaphor and I think that is a terrible concept,” Schmidt said. “There are no winners in that environment.”

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