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Comment by SchizoDuckie | Hacker News Reader

Next to being baffled that this comes out into the world, I can only laugh at this. Be careful what you wish for USA, You want cyber warfare? You just got it.

Just imagine, somebody with the intention to do harm having control over drones like that. It would be the ultimate remote strike, using their own systems, thát would rock their world the world!

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You don't deserve that downvote. Obama has been crowing in the NYT about his sK1Lz in cyberwarfare against the Iranians. What did he expect to happen?

My understanding is that U.S. cyberwarfare ended up in the NYT because of leaks and good journalism, not because Obama was touting it.

In an election year, when the Obama administration has a track record of zero tolerance of leaks and whistleblowers?

A quick Googling uncovered the controversy about the leaks, which I wasn't aware of.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/06/news/la-pn-mccain-ca...

The US most definitively does not want cyber warfare, which is why a bunch of military types have been going around for years warning about the possibility and the need to harden systems against it. Cyber warfare is bad news for the US because it's one of the areas of warfare in which the US doesn't have an obvious dominance.

Flame, Stuxnet?...

Sure, just because you don't want a type of warfare doesn't mean you're not going to engage in it. This happens to be the kind of warfare which doesn't "escalate" as such -- certain countries will continue to attack US systems at exactly the same rate regardless of whether the US is attacking 'em back.

Iran could turn around tomorrow and reassign everyone from its nuclear weapons programme to cyberwarfare instead.

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