The Trolls Among Us

Uitgebreid en herkenbaar Engelstalig artikel over een verschijnsel waar veel bloggers, in meer of mindere mate, last van hebben: internet-trollen en hun tactieken. Zie NY Times.

Verkorte Nederlandse versie is te vinden op Zaplog.

Uncle Sam's cyber force wants you

"This building will be attacked 3 million times today. Who's going to protect it?" Two army colleagues of mine nearly died on September 11, 2001, when the third hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon, so I can't say I appreciated the none-too-subtle reminder of that day's carnage. Leaving that aside, it turns out that the ad is referring to cyber attacks and that the cyber protector it has in mind is a new breed of "air" warrior, part of an entirely new Cyber Command run by the air force.

Using the latest technology, our cyber elite will "shoot down" enemy hackers and saboteurs, both foreign and domestic, thereby dominating the realm of cyberspace, just as the air force is currently seeking to dominate the planet's air space - and then space itself "to the shining stars and beyond".

Asia Times