Page Rockwell
War Room
Salon.com
April 19, 2005

Here's one weapon in the Defense Department's arsenal you may not have heard much about: its team of cyber warriors. Wired reports that officers from U.S. Strategic Command, or Stratcom, acknowledged the existence of a unit called the Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last month. Strip away the jargon, and you have the key words: network warfare, also known as hacking.

Part of the network warfare command's job is defensive: The unit protected Defense Department computer systems from an estimated 75,000 hacking attemps last year. But President Bush signed a secret directive in July of 2002 calling for the development of Computer Network Attack protocols, specifically to enable the network warfare unit to launch cyber attacks against enemy computer systems. [...] Read more at: http://tinyurl.com/cjqhm


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