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Expert Issues a Cyberwar Warning -- New York Times
MOSCOW — When Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of Europe’s largest antivirus company, discovered the Flame virus that is afflicting computers in Iran and the Middle East, he recognized it as a technologically sophisticated virus that only a government could create.
He also recognized that the virus, which he compares to the Stuxnet virus built by programmers employed by the United States and Israel, adds weight to his warnings of the grave dangers posed by governments that manufacture and release viruses on the Internet.
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Update: Flame: A glimpse into the future of war -- CNet
Update #2: Israel, US using cyberspace to attack enemies -- Sydney Morning Herald
My Comment: His concerns are valid .... but no one is going to do anything about it. If there will be a reaction, it will probably only come about when we become the targets for cyber attack. And if we should lose our communication/financial networks for a day or two due to a cyber attack .... that is when I can guarantee you that cyber war and the attacks that it will spawn will be front and center 24/7 in the news media.
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