2010-08-03

Cyberwar Exaggerations

Wired magazine reviews former counter-terrorism advisor to Bill Clinton, Richard Clarke's Cyberwar.

Wired concludes:
The cyberwar rhetoric is dangerous. Its practitioners are artists of exaggeration, who seem to think spinning tall tales is the only way to make bureaucracies move in the right direction. But yelling “Cyberwar” in a crowded internet is not without consequence. Not only does it promote unnecessary fear, it feeds the forces of parochial nationalism and militarism — undermining a communications system that has arguably done more to connect the world’s citizens than the last 50 years of diplomacy.

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