is the pentagon now writing our laws?

[spanone]

Sources: US decides cyber attack can be 'act of war

WASHINGTON— In its first formal cyber
strategy, the Pentagon has concluded that
computer sabotage by another country could
constitute an act of war, administration and
military sources told NBC News on Tuesday,
confirming a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The officials emphasize, however, that not
every attack would lead to retaliation. Such a
cyber attack would have to be so serious it
would threaten American lives, commerce,
infrastructure or worse, and there would have
to be indisputable evidence leading to the
nation state involved, NBC Pentagon
correspondent Jim Miklaszewski said.

Unclassified parts of the 30-page strategy are
expected to become public in June, the Wall
Street Journal reported, attributing the
disclosure to three defense sources who had
read the report.

A military source described the strategy to the
Journal this way: "If you shut down our power
grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of
your smokestacks."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43224451/ns/us_news-security/#

[Warpy]

1. If it caused nuke plants to melt down, you bet it is.

along with sabotaging the electrical grid, air traffic beacons and control, and other sabotage that would cost lives.

I would not, however, consider an attack on business electronic infrastructure an act of war. It's more an act of mass inconvenience. The bureaucrats would disagree, of course.

[spanone]

4. i suspect they have been long before nuke plants and cyberspace

[no limit]

5. If you can melt down a nuclear plant through hacking this country is already fucked

[Newest Reality]

2. I would expect the system to

anticipate the potential threats to itself in the midst of its own collapse while generating profitable, self-fulfilling, aggressive strategies to support the Military Industrial State's lucrative cabal of defense contractors.

[damntexdem]

3. Absolutely not! The Pentagon doesn't want to be hampered by mere law ...

not even law that it itself writes. They simply claim legal cover for whatever scheme they undertake.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. The Pentagon never runs out of bogeymen to "protect" us from.

Maybe we should go to the Mafia for protection. They're probably more efficient and cheaper.

[RandomThoughts]

7. Interesting phrase.

would have to be so serious it
would threaten American lives, commerce,
infrastructure or worse


How has the managing of society, private and public been going for decades, seems that phrase fits.

[MichiganVote]

8. Does the Pentagon even know what a law is???