Cyber attack could bring US military response

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US Air Force General Kevin Chilton, head of US Strategic Command, has said that attacks on the United States via the Internet could merit a conventional military response.

 

â??I donâ??t think you take anything off the table. Weâ??re particularly looking toward one group in Seattle.â?Â

 

The Seattle-based insurgent group is thought to have seeded American government and military computers with millions of copies of malware that allows attackers easy access to any data stored on the computer, or indeed to take complete control of the computer and use it for their own ends as part of a massive â??botnetâ? to mount further attacks. The malware, â??Windows,â? makes securing a computer running it almost impossible.

 

â??Turning Seattle into a glass crater would only be undertaken strictly as the minimum required surgical military action,â? emphasised Chilton, â??and not in any way out of twenty-five yearsâ?? bitter resentment and frustration at computing machinery.â?Â

 

Chilton stressed that members of the US military must begin to think of their computers as the front lines. â??Do you realize that in addition to adding Windows to computers, why, there are studies underway to Windowsize salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk â?¦ ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, childrenâ??s ice cream! I can no longer sit back and allow Windows infiltration, Windows indoctrination, Windows subversion and the international enterprise licensing conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!â?Â

 

The Obama administration is currently reviewing the United Stateâ??s cyberspace defense policy. â??Weâ??re considering all options thoroughly,â? said the President, closing his MacBook and looking lingeringly at the red button on his desk.

 

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I feel safer already...