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Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0)
From: Jean-François Mezei <jfmezei () vaxination ca>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:24:22 -0400
William Hamilton wrote:
If it's going to "literally" shot down an attack like an AA weapon, are they planning on physically launching projectiles at compromised machines across the world and destroying them?
The politician saw the episode of Star Trek where "7 of 9" typed in a few computer commands which caused some massive electrical jolt to be emitted by the bad dude's keyboard a few light years away, knocking him out. So they immediately think that they can do the same to incapacitate those making attacks on USA govt systems :-) Of course, this means the USA government will require all the world's keyboards to be equipped with the 50,000 volt "this will shock you" devices that only the uSA government can trigger :-) In other words, the politician's words should be included in some comic book, but shouldn't be discussed seriously.
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