[IP] Air Force Guards Cyberspace
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 10, 2005 4:57:47 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Jim Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Air Force Guards Cyberspace
In message <681774D0-AE80-49DA-BA92-9F5825B43314@xxxxxxxxxx>, David
Farber writ
es:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jim Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 10, 2005 1:48:11 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Jean Armour Polly <mom@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Air Force Guards Cyberspace
Well ... I guess that's just one more Bush-administration violation
of the Posse Comitatus Act, that prohibited using the military to
conduct civilian law-enforcement functions. At what point should we
begin to consider ourselves a (so to speak) "military police"
state? ;-)
This comment may be a bit unfair. If we assume that various nations --
including the US -- were to engage in "cyberwarfare", it arguably is a
military mission. The Reuters story
(http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=270419
+06-Dec-2005+RTRS&srch=Cyberwar+Mission)
specifically speaks of the statement in these terms:
The United States electronically jabbed Serbian computer
networks during the 78-day NATO bombing campaign over Kosovo
in 1999, Army Gen. Henry Shelton, then the top U.S. military
officer said.
"We only used our capability to a very limited degree," Shelton,
then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on October 7, 1999.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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