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# tech
A new report by a congressional watchdog finds that a stunning number of weapon and military communication systems are easy targets for tech-savvy adversaries.
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Policy wonks are trying to wrap their minds around how to fight a war in cyberspace, but their thinking keeps defaulting to conventional warfare.
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The problem with the supposed Russian attack on an American water treatment plant isn't the false alarm, it's how Congress and the DHS reacted.
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We're still not sure about the right way to counter state-sponsored hacking and how to organize a coordinated counter-attack.
# space
"Whoops, sorry about colliding with your satellite, it was a complete accident we'll absolutely investigate. We promise..."
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Pundits are dueling over the question of how afraid we should be of a devastating cyber attack.
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Far from keeping analyses of potential cyber attacks on critical infrastructure nodes, pundits are hyperventilating.
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The internet kill switch bill is back and its author and sponsors have learned absolutely nothing about how the technology works.
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Stuxnet is scary, but we don't yet have clear evidence that it was the first cyber attack by a nation state.
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Joe Lieberman decided that the best way to tackle cyber-security is by literally shutting off the country's internet on demand with nothing more than an executive order by the president.