Marcus Aurelius: Retarded Governments Catch Up with Hacking 101

Two especially intelligent pieces.

Mutually Assured Cyberdestruction?

David Sanger in New York Times

Cyberspace The Fragile Frontier

Robert O'Harrow Jr. in Washington Post

Phi Beta Iota:  What is so pathetic about all this is that governments have learned nothing in the quarter century since Winn Schwartau, Bill Caelli, Jim Anderson, Robert Steele, and a handful of others sounded the alarm.  25 years of dereliction of duty.

See Also:

DefDog: The infamous ‘take down the Internet in 30 minutes’ hearing from 1998 — Tens of Billions Later, NSA and OMB Have Not Done Their Jobs, US Cyber is Wide Open and Unsafe at Any Speed + Meta-RECAP