April 18, 2005
U.S. Government Hacker Warfare
Cyberwarfare hacker posses. Your tax dollars at work. I don't know why, but I have the feeling the best hackers in the world wouldn't be caught dead working for the U.S. government. It brings me back to one time when I saw the CIA director on C-SPAN bragging how their cyberwarfare group has not stood still. Give me a break.The U.S. military has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks -- from electric grids to telephone nets. The group's existence was revealed during a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last month. Military leaders from U.S. Strategic Command, or Stratcom, disclosed the existence of a unit called the Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare, or JFCCNW.
