Re:Hoisted by their own petard! (Score 1)

My biggest issue here is that using the Internet as a battleground destroys its usefulness and its essence. Honestly, I don't think the USAF really cares about the various botnets out there in the wild. What they're preparing for is the option to launch a digital attack on a foreign power with the intent of causing a disruption concurrent with a physical attack, or else "beseige" a country by holding their information system hostage. As soon as that becomes a reality, countries all across the globe are going to start putting up giant firewalls keeping international traffic out, or they're just going to cut their international data lines altogether. The Great Firewall of China is already bad enough, do we really want to sever the Internet into ChinaNet, RussiaNet, SwitzerlandNet, and so on? The eventual implementation of digital warfare (even digital cold warfare) will kill the "World Wide" Web. Once our information infrastructure is a "national interest" that we defend militarily, the neutrality that makes the Internet globally useful will disintegrate. They can integrate BotNet software into Windows all they want, just leave the Internet alone. It is neutral for a reason.