America's war on the web

[NVMojo]

While the US remains committed to hunting down al-Qaeda operatives, it is now taking the battle to new fronts. Deep within the Pentagon, technologies are being deployed to wage the war on terror on the internet, in newspapers and even through mobile phones. Investigations editor Neil Mackay reports


IMAGINE a world where wars are fought over the internet; where TV broadcasts and newspaper reports are designed by the military to confuse the population; and where a foreign armed power can shut down your computer, phone, radio or TV at will.

In 2006, we are just about to enter such a world. This is the age of information warfare, and details of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and approved by US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld and seen by the Sunday Herald.

The Pentagon has already signed off $383 million to force through the document’s recommendations by 2009. Military and intelligence sources in the US talk of “a revolution in the concept of warfare”. The report orders three new developments in America’s approach to warfare:

l Firstly, the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet in order to dominate the realm of communications, prevent digital attacks on the US and its allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-attacks against enemies.

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http://www.sundayherald.com/54975

[Zookeeper]

1. It occurred to me the other day...

that we may end up looking back and thinking of now as "The golden age of the Internet." I'm sure there are plenty of neo-cons and facists looking for ways to control information and communication on the Internet.

Thanks for posting!

[katty]

4. yeah, they'd love that-it's their wet dream

[Vexatious Ape]

2. It will happen soon enough

We always have to keep in mind the utter contempt the right has for freedom--especially freedom of expression and descent. They'll wrap it all up in the flag and call it the 'war on terror' but they'll be screwing with the blogs, shutting some down and all sorts of subterfuge.

[icymist]

3. k & r n/t