It is indeed silly, but not laughable. The dangers from those who will propose various means to ‘protect’ us from these imaginary events are very real.

Essentially, what they propose is the construction of a quite vast infrastructure of control that would potentially but big brother to shame.

Now, we may feel that those in charge now would not misuse this infrastructure, but we do not know who will be in charge tomorrow. More importantly, when such an infrastructure exists, it will attract those to power who would misuse it.

At first, this seems a tangent from your post, however, I have noticed this alarmist descriptions of ‘cyber’ war are (often) followed by proposals to ‘fix’ the problem.

It is the distribution of polonium by the manifestly evil regime of Vlad Putin that concerns me, not so much the DDOS attacks, which are, it is true, a nuisance.

But just wait–we will surely see those who want to introduce treacherous computing use this attack by ‘terrorists’ as a justification.

Again, people look at the tool (the computer network) when it is the man (Vlad Putin) who is a most evil murderous despot.

It is indeed silly, but not laughable. The dangers from those who will propose various means to ‘protect’ us from these imaginary events are very real.

Essentially, what they propose is the construction of a quite vast infrastructure of control that would potentially but big brother to shame.

Now, we may feel that those in charge now would not misuse this infrastructure, but we do not know who will be in charge tomorrow. More importantly, when such an infrastructure exists, it will attract those to power who would misuse it.

At first, this seems a tangent from your post, however, I have noticed this alarmist descriptions of ‘cyber’ war are (often) followed by proposals to ‘fix’ the problem.

It is the distribution of polonium by the manifestly evil regime of Vlad Putin that concerns me, not so much the DDOS attacks, which are, it is true, a nuisance.

But just wait–we will surely see those who want to introduce treacherous computing use this attack by ‘terrorists’ as a justification.

Again, people look at the tool (the computer network) when it is the man (Vlad Putin) who is a most evil murderous despot.