[LINK] Flame: "US Building Cybersecurity Capability"?

[Jim Birch]

On 29 May 2012 15:15, <stephen at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

> Marghanita notes,
>
> > Yesterday (the US) took a step forward in better understanding .. how
> > we can improve our ability to protect against cybersecurity threats...
>

Stilgherrian has a good Patch Monday podcast on cyberwar with a touch of
reality check.  Highlights (for me) included the analysis of developing US
cyberwar capability from job adverts, and US DoD lawyer Richard Clarke
explaining how much he hates the ubiquitous cyber prefix.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/war-talk-dominates-auscert-2012-339338264.htm

Jim

Cyber is such a perfect prefix. Because nobody has any idea what it means,
it can be grafted onto any old word to make it seem new, cool -- and
therefore strange, spooky. ["New York" magazine, Dec. 23, 1996]