While the U.S. and Iran Negotiate, War Commences In Cyberspace 181
An anonymous reader writes "A series of reports shows that the U.S. and Israel are engaged in a cyber war with Iran to stop it from developing nuclear weapons. Oddly enough, at the same time, the United States and others nations are trying to negotiate with Iran. As America and others start the world's first undeclared cyber-wars, dangerous precedents are being set that this type of warfare is without consequences. Such ideas could not be further from from truth."
Make Cybersex not Cyberwar (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Make Cybersex not Cyberwar (Score:1, Interesting)
Very few people on Slashdot do. Slashdot's moderating system in practical terms allows those with certain extremist viewpoints to keep dissenting opinions from even being displayed.
Quite naturally, people who don't have these extremist opinions and consequently have their posts modded down to the point that nobody sees them, are likely to move over to another more open-minded internet forum. Additionally, people who have these extremist opinions are drawn to Slashdot. Where they continue to mod their viewpoints (anti-Microsoft or the US = automatic +1 insightful), and it's a feedback loop.
If you were to go to practically any other message board, you'd find a lot of people who are in favor of preventing a 3rd world theocracy who operated with a nuclear black market from developing nuclear weapons, especially by non-violent means.
Re:United States playing the role of 1941 Japan (Score:2, Interesting)
There were U.S. planes striking Japan's supply lines and southern Chinese bases BEFORE Pearl Harbor happened. The U.S. (or more precisely: President Roosevelt) started the aggression first..... nobody should have been surprised that Japan struck back to get revenge.
Re:dude (Score:1, Interesting)
Are you willing to bet who will lose more in a cyber war? Iran or US?
Those who live in houses from glass should now throw stones!
Re:Make Cybersex not Cyberwar (Score:4, Interesting)
Is it just me or does anyone actually support the actions of our government besides the government?
Our levels of civic education and the amount of civic responsibility (voting, jury duty, military service, etc.,) are shockingly low compared to other first world countries. Our public education system continues to show a steady downward trend in the diversity and depth of material, fewer graduates are capable of multi-factor analysis, critical thinking... even basic math skills markedly eroded in the 18-25 group. It doesn't matter what our government does; The population has become functionally illiterate. The general population simply lacks the ability to understand government action. If tomorrow CNN reported that we've started carpet bombing say *shakes magic 8 ball* Mauritania because *shakes magic 8 ball* they funded training camps for buddhist suicide bombers... most people would just nod their heads, shrug, and go about their business and in a few months FOX News would be showing us a picture of a buddhist monk setting himself on fire as proof of their radical buddhism, perhaps juxtaposing some people that look vaguely buddhist burning a flag before offering 15 seconds for J. Random College Professor of Sociostrategogamia at Princeton to say "I think we're really mischaracterizing thi--"... and then cut to commercial break with dancing toilet paper.
That's what America is today. I'm sorry... I can't honestly say anyone really supports or doesn't support the government on anything other than emotive thinking and a vague sense that they shouldn't really question what they're told or Bad Things Will Happen. There is no longer any public discussion of what our government does, there's no real public forum for it: The few that people have attempted to form have been stigmatized by the Department of Homeland Security. It may not be Soviet Russia in the 80s, or East Germany... people aren't exactly disappearing off the street, but there is still a palpable fear in our public places. People just don't talk to each other anymore.