US wants its own botnet for preemptive strikes

The US Air Force is talking openly about forming botnets to launch preemptive attacks in cyberspace.

In the May 2008 issue of Armed Forces Journal, Col. Charles W. Williamson III wrote that "America needs a network that can project power by building an af.mil robot network [botnet] that can direct such massive amounts of traffic to target computers that they can no longer communicate and become no more useful to our adversaries than hunks of metal and plastic. America needs the ability to carpet bomb in cyberspace to create the deterrent we lack."

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zdnet.com.au

Fri May 16

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