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  • The North Koreans “need to be sent a strong message, whether it is a counterattack on cyber, [or] whether it is more international sanctions,” said Republican Rep Peter Hoekstra, a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. “The only thing they will understand is some kind of show of force and strength.”



    It would be easy to dismiss such opinions, especially from a lawmaker who has something of a reputation for over-statement.



    But alarmingly enough, the US military has openly discussed the possibility of retaliating against cyberattacks with real bombs. "You don’t take any response options off the table from an attack on the United States of America,” said Air Force General Kevin Chilton, the head of US Strategic Command, earlier this year. “Why would we constrain ourselves on how we would respond?”
  • cybersecurity fears are hugely overblown, and that the real danger may come from state over-reaction to a threat of which the paucity of public understanding is matched only by the unlikeness that it will ever materialize.



    The prospect of unknown attackers disabling banking systems or the power grid, “certainly sounds scary,” Morozov writes, “almost as scary as raptors in Central Park or a giant asteroid heading toward the White House. The latter two are not, however, being presented as ‘national security risks’ yet."
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      Transtracker on 2009-07-15
      Well actually, colliding asteroids have been constructed as a security threat in the past. See...

      Mellor, Felicity (2007) 'Colliding Worlds: Asteroid Research and the Legitimization of War in Space', Social Studies of Science 37(4): 499-531.

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    • The North Koreans “need to be sent a strong message, whether it is a counterattack on cyber, [or] whether it is more international sanctions,” said Republican Rep Peter Hoekstra, a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. “The only thing they will understand is some kind of show of force and strength.”



      It would be easy to dismiss such opinions, especially from a lawmaker who has something of a reputation for over-statement.



      But alarmingly enough, the US military has openly discussed the possibility of retaliating against cyberattacks with real bombs. "You don’t take any response options off the table from an attack on the United States of America,” said Air Force General Kevin Chilton, the head of US Strategic Command, earlier this year. “Why would we constrain ourselves on how we would respond?”
    • cybersecurity fears are hugely overblown, and that the real danger may come from state over-reaction to a threat of which the paucity of public understanding is matched only by the unlikeness that it will ever materialize.



      The prospect of unknown attackers disabling banking systems or the power grid, “certainly sounds scary,” Morozov writes, “almost as scary as raptors in Central Park or a giant asteroid heading toward the White House. The latter two are not, however, being presented as ‘national security risks’ yet."
      • TransTracker

        TransTracker on 2009-07-15

        Well actually, colliding asteroids have been constructed as a security threat in the past. See...

        Mellor, Felicity (2007) 'Colliding Worlds: Asteroid Research and the Legitimization of War in Space', Social Studies of Science 37(4): 499-531.