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| USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet                         |
|   from the all-to-steal-wow-gold dept.                             |
|   posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 12, @12:24 (The Military)       |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/12/1525257 |
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[0]sowjetarschbajazzo writes “Air Force Col. Charles W. Williamson III
believes that the United States military should [1]maintain its own
botnet, both as a deterrent towards those who would attempt to DDoS
government networks, and an offensive weapon to be used against the
networks of unfriendly nations, criminal groups, or terrorist
organizations. “Some people would fear the possibility of botnet attacks
on innocent parties. If the botnet is used in a strictly offensive
manner, civilian computers may be attacked, but only if the enemy compels
us. The U.S. will perform the same target preparation as for traditional
targets and respect the law of armed conflict as Defense Department
policy requires by analyzing necessity, proportionality and distinction
among military, dual-use or civilian targets. But neither the law of
armed conflict nor common sense would allow belligerents to hide behind
the skirts of its civilians. If the enemy is using civilian computers in
his country so as to cause us harm, then we may attack them.” What does
Slashdot think of this proposal?”

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Links:
0. mailto:meisterburgerburgermeister [Email address: meisterburgerburgermeister #AT# gmail.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2008/05/3375884