Comment But... (Score 1) 468
So, the internet is this wide connected network of computers. The USAF want to create an offensive botnet to counter cyber threats.
What happens when said bot or rootkit works its way unwittingly onto a UK MoD system. Or a Chinese defense network. Or a Russian network.
Isn't that going to result in a prelude to war? Could that in itself be classed as a declaration of war?
How are they going to stop something like this happening? Restrict it to a geoIP lookup before it attaches to a system?
Skynet was USAF, wasn't it?
What happens when said bot or rootkit works its way unwittingly onto a UK MoD system. Or a Chinese defense network. Or a Russian network.
Isn't that going to result in a prelude to war? Could that in itself be classed as a declaration of war?
How are they going to stop something like this happening? Restrict it to a geoIP lookup before it attaches to a system?
Skynet was USAF, wasn't it?
