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lovinglinux
May 14th, 2009, 08:58 PM
OMG, if your machine becomes part of a botnet you might get a missile on your head.

Cyber attack could bring U.S. military response

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/961?ref=rss

Official: No options ‘off the table’ for U.S. response to cyber attacks

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=62555

eragon100
May 14th, 2009, 09:02 PM
OMG, if your machine becomes part of a botnet you might get a missile on your head.

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Nice, that would increase linux marketshare... typically only windows users become part of a botnet, right? :lolflag:

lovinglinux
May 14th, 2009, 09:15 PM
Nice, that would increase linux marketshare... typically only windows users become part of a botnet, right? :lolflag:

Yep. I guess. :lol:

alexandari
May 14th, 2009, 09:17 PM
so..this leads to what?
Get Linux or die xD

lovinglinux
May 14th, 2009, 09:20 PM
so..this leads to what?
Get Linux or die xD

:lolflag:

This makes me remember a movie from the 80's, called "War Games (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/)".

Plot: "A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III"

MaxIBoy
May 14th, 2009, 09:21 PM
The missile stations aren't really equipped to target themselves. So it would be more accurate to say "force the military to ditch Windows, or else everyone else besides the military will die by accident."

MikeTheC
May 14th, 2009, 10:07 PM
so..this leads to what?
Get Linux or die xD


http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7994/switchtolinuxordie.png

pwnst*r
May 14th, 2009, 10:11 PM
why do we love to blow stuff up so much?

LowSky
May 14th, 2009, 10:21 PM
why do we love to blow stuff up so much?

I'm not sure why but I do enjoy the 4th of July

I thinks it is awesome that the Air Force is the military branch that oversees the military actions of cyber space. But I wonder how many geeks would pass military boot camp...lol

Therion
May 14th, 2009, 10:28 PM
why do we love to blow stuff up so much?
Because it's the only way to be sure...

http://shhac.info/x/b/nuke_it_from_orbit.jpg

Corelogik
May 14th, 2009, 11:47 PM
Because it's the only way to be sure...

http://shhac.info/x/b/nuke_it_from_orbit.jpg

ROFL! Good one! Game over man, Game Over!

bodhi.zazen
May 15th, 2009, 12:18 AM
Thread closed as it is seemingly political (was reported) and unrelated to open source.