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America's Botnet Needed, Says AF Colonel
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-05-13
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An Air Force colonel's suggestion that American needs a botnet provokes a strange idea: that the military and intelligence communities don't have one now.
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Maybe the Department of Homeland Security can get a government discount to use the Russian Business Network's botnet army if needed. We find it strange that a military intelligence officer would publicly call for an army of bots. No one at NSA, CIA, or any of the other alphabet soup spook shops have one of these yet? Really?
It could be they haven't shared that revelation with Col. Charles Williamson III, the staff judge advocate, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, at Lackland AFB. His piece in the Armed Forces Journal makes the lengthy argument for an AF.mil network of computers, ready to go to cyberwar at a moment's notice.
On the technology side, Williamson envisions taking the thousands of computers the Air Force junks each year (bye bye tax dollars) and doing a "technology refresh" on them. This would involve "removing the power-hungry and heat-inducing hard drives, replacing them with low-power flash drives, then installing them in any available space every Air Force base can find," he wrote.
Williamson cited government research that tapped China as possessing the world's largest denial of service capability. Essentially, we're in an arms race already, and may be losing badly to potentially our greatest enemy in history.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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