Nelsie
April 14, 2016, 12:39am
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My first thought on reading the phrase “cyber bomb” was to imagine a bomb that homes in on IP addresses. No way that could go wrong.[/sarcasm]
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It’s just a regular bomb delivered via the cybertubes
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Fef
April 14, 2016, 1:47am
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A battalion of hundreds of Keanu Reeves units.
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And that’s all the detail we have, which isn’t much.
Thanks, A for effort.
Wait, no. It looks like Reuters made up the part about “cyber bombs.” The US military didn’t say that.
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Boundegar:
“cyber bombs.”
If it’s on Fox News Comedy Channel it must be true…
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Shuck
April 14, 2016, 2:27am
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I imagine these are the “cyberwarfare” versions of those multi-million dollar cruise missiles being used to blow up some insurgents’ beat up old pickup trucks.
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Old
April 14, 2016, 4:49am
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The very center of America would be glass slag.
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I fear that consequences will never be the same.
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LDoBe
April 14, 2016, 4:55am
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Cyberbombs now, Dubstep guns tomorrow
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renke
April 14, 2016, 8:50am
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nah, the coordinates are not nice enough. 38°N 97°W is much simpler to handle.
Will nobody think of teh kittenz?!
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I can only imagine pixelated explosions over DAESH compounds…
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‘Cyber bombs’ is a direct quote from Deputy Defense Secretary, Bob Work.
‘It Sucks To Be ISIL:’ US Deploys ‘Cyber Bombs,’ Says DepSecDef - Breaking Defense
13-APR-2016 16:03:05
BUCKLEY AFB: Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work told reporters today that ISIL is under tremendous pressure from the United States -“from every single direction, the north, the east, the west and the south” - and the terrorist group has lost every engagement with allied forces over the last six months. That apparently includes in cyberspace .
“I’ve got to tell you right now it sucks to be ISIL ,” he told us on his plane en route to the 32nd Space Symposium. “Those guys are under enormous pressure. Every time we have gone after one of their defended positions in the last 10 months, we have defeated them. They have left.They have retreated.They are hunkering down.”
That includes using all the instruments of national power, including for the first time, the use of what Work called “cyber bombs.” He credited Defense Secretary Ash Carter with being"extraordinarily innovativein his use of our capabilities against ISIL. So for example, we are dropping cyber bombs. We have never done that before. It is the first time he has given Cyber Command guidance we’re going to go after ISIL. Just like we have an air campaign, I want to have a cyber campaign. I want to use all the space capabilities I have."
Carter hinted at the use of cyber weapons when he spoke at the Center for International and Strategic Studies on April 5: “I’ve also brought Strategic Command and Cyber Command into these operations as well, to leverage their unique capabilities in space and cyber to contribute to the defeat of ISIL.”
My colleague Mike Gruss of Space News asked Work for more details about the use of space capabilities and the deputy declined to provide specifics.
I’ve asked for more information about what constitutes a " cyber bomb ." We’ll see if we get any information.
That is, it sounds like bollocks, but it isn’t Reuters’ bollocks.
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I didn’t see that, but I agree about the bollocks.
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Maybe they’re trolling the comment threads on their websites.
Ever noticed how news orgs always talk about something posted on “ISIS websites” but never ever link to the websites? I get why they don’t, but it seems odd to report on something as fact and offer absolutely no proof.
MikeR
April 14, 2016, 12:41pm
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It’s a bomb filled with hundreds of AOL disks.
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Alright, you load the AOL, I’ll get the VHS cassettes…
They won’t know what hit them.
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They literally won’t. They’ll be looking at the AOL disks and saying, “What the fuck are these?”
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