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In reply to the discussion: NSA Chief General Kieth Alexander and "The Secret War" [View all]Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)I'm still not finished, but what I've read is really disturbing. See my other response below.
This is not some video game antics we're talking about here. These operations, and the retaliations, have the very real capability to kill. This isn't your daddy's war anymore.
And the whole world is in the cyber cross-hairs. Thinking about, and I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, but this cyber warfare could be more dangerous than nuclear arms. I say this because we, as humans, can see the tangible threat by launching a nuke. Not so with the abstract cyber warfare. We are not as privy to the nature of the danger we are unleashing. It's not as tangible. There are no "mushroom clouds" but the danger, I think, is worse. Could literally cripple the world, and end us as a species.