Army wants own botnet
The army wants to set up their own botnet (apparently Storm freaked the hell out of them?). Their own words are better anything I could make up:
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The world has abandoned a fortress mentality in the real world, and we need to move beyond it in cyberspace. America needs a network that can project power by building an af.mil robot network (botnet) that can direct such massive amounts of traffic to target computers that they can no longer communicate and become no more useful to our adversaries than hunks of metal and plastic. America needs the ability to carpet bomb in cyberspace to create the deterrent we lack.
Gotta love their "towns and roads" analogy -- too bad they didn't reuse the "series of tubes" one...
I predict it will get compromised and turned on government systems shortly after deployment. Especially if they give easy inside access by using their own stupid suggestion:
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Rob Kaufman, of the Air Force Information Operations Center, suggests mounting botnet code on the Air Force's high-speed intrusion-detection systems. Defensively, that allows a quick response by directly linking our counterattack to the system that detects an incoming attack. The systems also have enough processing speed and communication capacity to handle large amounts of traffic.