{"id":358920,"date":"2010-02-24T15:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T20:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2010-02-24T15:55:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T20:55:17","slug":"united-states-not-ready-for-cyberwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358920","title":{"rendered":"United States not ready for cyberwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/news\/frame.html?main=\/news\/news_single.html?id%3D11858\" >Via KurzweilAI.net<\/a> &#8212; This warning from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Michael_McConnell\" >Michael McConnell<\/a> shouldn&#8217;t be dismissed as another Bush 43\u00a0administration\u00a0official hoping to paint Obama as unprepared for security threats and attempting to preemptively pin any future attacks on the purported incompetence of the White House. McConnell served as NSA director under Clinton before his stint as Director of National Intelligence under Bush and then briefly under Obama. Cyberwarfare is one threat the U.S. faces where the overwhelming might of our military does not make a whit of difference.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"100%\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">U.S. Unprepared for &#8216;Cyber War&#8217;, Former Top Spy Official Says<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">BusinessWeek, Feb. 23, 2010<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. isn&#8217;t prepared for a massive attack on its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/24\/united-states-not-ready-for-cyberwar\/loadBrain('Computer')\">computer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/24\/united-states-not-ready-for-cyberwar\/loadBrain('Network')\">network<\/a>s by another country and would lose, former Director of National\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/24\/united-states-not-ready-for-cyberwar\/loadBrain('Intelligence')\">Intelligence<\/a> Michael McConnell told a Senate panel today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-02-23\/u-s-unprepared-for-cyber-war-former-top-spy-official-says.html\" >Read Original Article&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6844\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6844\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6844\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6844\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6844\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6844\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6844\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6844\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6844\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6844\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6844&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via KurzweilAI.net &#8212; This warning from Michael McConnell shouldn&#8217;t be dismissed as another Bush 43\u00a0administration\u00a0official hoping to paint Obama as unprepared for security threats and attempting to preemptively pin any future attacks on the purported incompetence of the White House. McConnell served as NSA director under Clinton before his stint as Director of National Intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}