Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Lock and Load

We are cleared for action in the cyber realm, it seems:

The US Defense Department has been given a bright green light to draw up a global cyberattack target list at which it can deploy digital weapons with “little or no warning to the adversary or the target,” according to a Top Secret policy document leaked to the press.

The policy document, dubbed “Presidential Policy Directive 20” or PPD-20, is an 18-page cyberpolicy roadmap for the Pentagon that directs it to get on with the business of defending the US and its critical infrastructure, such as the power grid and financial sector, from foreign cyberattack.

I guess President Obama didn't get a satisfactory response from China's leader when the two met in California this week and the president brought the issue up.

We'll see if we are as good as I hope we can be.

Although it might take an e-Lusitania incident to awake the sleeping giant.