As someone who had a face to face with Military Intelligence I would concord with your words on MI but I would note you that the question is not capability but crime. Crime is not capability. It is a process which, at least, degradates the very frame of society in every level and form.

If we have a crime gang going wild, we need to track not only their capabilities but also their relations motives and modus vivendi. And note, I am writing "capabilities" in plural. Now how in MI conditions can you give a solution to this problem? Sincerly? Not even the police forces have an answer for it! How the MI will have? The whole problem is to mitigate, as much as possible the threat. If you can take them down, great. If you are taking down a capability and giving them more strength... Hey, pal, you are probably creating a hurricane out of a cup of water.

If crime is the intent, we shall fight crime, not the means. Now I agree that the means, today, are pretty near to military capabilities. Anyway, Internet is DARPA's daughter isn't it? So I do agree that MI has something to do here. But not to rule the game. That's stupid if you just count for the fact that you are dealing with a foe with "capabilities".

And besides, military are very, very approachable by crime gangs of all sorts. You may try to tell me that these are unfortunate exceptions and sad cases. You may even stand high for your brass and state, straightforwardly, that such thing ain't possible on MI. Unfortunately I know of a MI group, in a certain country, that has been using cybergangs and being used by them. What I saw is too far from the usual MI task and looks like a pornographic variant of "Catch 22".

Oh, btw. An US staunch ally but likes to use US resources... Wonder what your cybercommand would do with them.

It starts while you are graduating.

A big chunk, quite a huge piece of graduation diploms, certificates etc. (depends on each country) are based in the most rabid form of falsifications - "copy/past". They are presented as something new, at least as a "new" variation of a well known theme, however there is nothing new on it. Just the same stufff written in different words.

The sad fact is that faculties and science departments accept it.

The good thing is that the large majority of these graduates will stay well away from science. Yes, they still will make damage, ex. CEO I had to deal with. He claimed in every possible corner he finished Oxford in finances (he did study in Oxford) but was unable to calculate an average. The guy sent the company 2 million dollars directly under the bottom and we had a great time, full of all sorts of fun, to recover the damage.

But some of these people do enter science! And that's where things start to go boost. I saw some people getting high positions on faculties just for one fact - they write too much and speak a lot. Really, nothing else. A seminar costs money, you send this bla-bla-bla over there. It is not a big matter that he hasn't found nothing new except a new way to describe gravity in words and funny pics. He goes there, makes his new discovery a literature best-seller, puts everyone wondering about his colorful PowerPoint diagrams. That's all folks! Seminar's monny is in the safe. And your bla-bla-bla will be published in the next Annals. So, more monny-monny may come.

Really I think that analysis are terribly skewed. My belief is that we have a lot more crap going around, desguised in small and very specific publications that no ones take into account. Why? Because it's crap from the very start! So why to take the task to read it? But such attitude hides the real dimension of the problem.

I would note that during both Iraq wars there were reports that US & Allies could not completely take down Irak's network grid. There was even some anecdotical evidence due to fiber optics being used.

"As far as it can be cut off"... Well the last on the list will probably be those with the weapons, which makes such moves rather unproductive. Civilians loose phone and network links while the military or terrorist keep browsing Google Maps.

One doesn't need to go so far as to Iraq... Pakistan, Swat. Taliban carries a whole spectra of communication devices, they even directly call CNN for their "daily comment". Meanwhile there are hundreds of thousands of civilians stranded in the valley nearly without anything. Each time any one of them reaches a working phone it is a call of despair and anger.

Agree. But one shall take into account that Syria, while helping organisations clearly linked to terrorism, does not make threats against the US. On the contrary it has a policy to avoid directly harassing the US. On the other side, there is that interesting country of Libya.... That did not only made threats... Right?

Where are they now?

BTW, no long ago I took a look at a large book made in the US about Libya's mineral resources. Really fantastic, a super-detailed report on the best of the best Libya has "to offer" the Am... the world, the world.

So, it seems that the question is no only about who supports what.
 

The problem is purely economical. If one gets the chronology right, things went bad between US and Cuba when Fidel wanted to get a little bit of Cuba for cubans themselves. Back them 99,9% of Cuba was US, the "little garden" on the Caribbean.

Was it a burst of emotion or something else? The fact is that Fidel nationalized all Cuba! And the US made a pretty messy fuss out of that. Upon which Fidel answered with a fuss of world proportions. Remember the Missile Crisis?

Now the fact is that not only Fidel, or the Castros don't want the US in Cuba. Every single cuban I talked with, strongly stated - everything but the US back. Till now they cannot forgive the US what happened till the Castros. Also they cannot forgive the US what happened later, in the way on how it happened. The word "Pigs" are usually strongly remarked when a cuban talks about a specific bay.

They will support the Castros even if the US becomes communist. Really. Because their wish is nil economic US presence on Cuba. That's how they see things after what happened. Yes it is mostly allergy but that's the way things came into what we have now in Cuba.

But can the US even imagine to accept this?

Or use relative tools from third countries. There is no access to google.com? Well, let's try yandex.ru.

These rulings give me a weird sense of the Chinese Big Wall of Internet in a mirror image

There were and probably still are several american interests in Myanmar/Burma. Not matter the presence, the regime there is still the same. And the response they made to the huge cyclone that slashed nearly all the country is, at least, barbaric.

Cuba, with its record, had recently to deal with a no less damaging hurricane. Their response was such that I read, a few months ago, that Texas officials were eager to go to Havana to get acquainted with their methods.

Anyway that will not impair Fidel Castro of browsing Google News through Chavez's personal proxy, right?
Or it will not stop Ahmenidjad of reading all those funny books on US rocket programs he already got from googling... Besides he already bookmarked all the stuff.
Anyway I think it will be more damaging the fact that information, on what people think of these countries, is being blocked to them...

Eeeee, stop... North Korea was taken out of terrorism support list a little before they started to mess around with missiles and nukes. Well, missiles and nukes, they already had isn't it? Yes, it could be possible that Kim just decided to google a little bit and found the reason for that litlte meany bug that was plaguing his rockets. But the man went really mad, he is blasting a rocket every day and scrapping every piece of paper he signed. He's cursing the whole world and threatening pure harakiri. Maybe because of such things as this?:

http://www.nkeconwatch.com/north-korea-uncovered-google-earth/

So long for secretive North Korea...

If this comes to reality then it will be the worst mistake the US did since Iraq.

Crime is not a field military shall mess around. The bearing of arms puts a soldier at the very edge of crime. But, while excesses (and crude crimes) happen, the fact that it is the judicial system that controls these matters, we have a filter between the use of extreme measures by military means and crime. Now put the military dealing with crime and not only the filter dilutes completely but also crime may go rapant and uncontrollable. Just think, how judges will try to exercise his power over a general that has gone wild? How easy will be to take control over officers commiting crimes in a typical military environment where the "first" in discipline is subordination?

  In a judicial system it is hard to control cops going wild. In a military system the chance to stop rapant crime is near zero.

Argentina was not a lesson for anyone? And what about SS? The SS were all-in-one: police, military, paramilitary. The worst criminal gang ever.

Yes, the US is a democracy. In what country was written "Catch 22"? What was this book about? As far as I remember it was how the military went so easily on making contraband... With their own enemies... And while the story was fictional, in fact, there were wild cases inside the US military forces (and among other armies) by the end of WWII.

Really? I remember that Windows NT & Sons had a too classical and nearly eternal flaw, which did not give a chance for a guaranteed secure environment - the internal messaging between progs. I met it a few times and it was really painful.

Yes Vista & Sons probably have solved this. But after 15 years on Windows I didn't wait for them.

Besides, you don't make backbones on Windows or *nixes. Anyway you don't use *just* Windows or *nix
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Simple buddy... Czar is synonim to Samoderzhec, something like "the power in himself by himself". Much like the "L'Etat c'est moi..."