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Details are emerging of the training programme that will produce the US military's new elite corps of cyberwarfare operatives. According to a Department of Defense statement, the undergraduate cyber training course for career field 17DX "cyber operations officers" in the US Air Force was launched last week at Keesler airforce …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    US RahRah Force (USRRF)

    ..doing their training.

    Meanwhile the real guys at FtMeade do the hard work.

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  2. The BigYin
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    Hmmm....

    ...this is the same country that doesn't understand basic security and can be owned by one bloke with a nervous tick and a few scripts?

    IIRC the upper 15% of a turd is still turd.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      @The BigYin

      Well it's almost 8.5 years since they stopped Gary Mackinnon's quest for UFOs - a little longer than the interval between Kennedy's "We choose the Moon" speech and "one giant leap for mankind". So it's not unreasonable to hope that they've somewhat got A into G in the meantime

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      1. The BigYin
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        @Mongo

        Don't hold yer breath. It's 20 (almost 30?) years since Stoll's book and they are STILL making the same mistakes! The exact same ones that McKinnon exploited.

        So no, I do not think they got their A into G. I reckon they can't tell their A from their E.

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  3. Electro Boy
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    Screaming Fist??

    Awesome.......but I hope the Russian EMP weapons are kinder to them than they were to Colonel Corto.

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    1. Combat Wombat
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      Joke

      So where can I hire...

      Molly Millions ?

      Sexy yet deadly razor girl..

      I want my distopian future now damnit !

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    One could easily conclude from this and various other stories...

    ...that the USA - as a whole - needs to let go, get some good ole fashioned oats more often and deal with this unhealthy need to dominate everyone else.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      @AC 15:05 - Si vis pacem, para bellum

      Though clumsily expressed here by those self-interested Pentagon folk, through millennia of worrying the human race has yet to dispense with "If you wish for peace, prepare for war"

      [while not of course disregarding the myriad of other useful diplomatic and social things that may help you rub along with other nations, but keeping some kind of stick in the cupboard will serve you well a while yet]

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    'Active Defence'

    I just love the terms the US military industry come up with for plain old attacking anything that looks or sounds a bit funny. I saw a fighter aircraft advertised in a trade mag boasting about its advanced 'defence suppression capability'. Someone really needs to explain the concept of 'irony' to these people - if they ever got it, they'd keep themselves entertained for years.

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  6. not.known@this.address
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    Air VICE Marshall

    Mine's the one with the rulebook for 'Spads and Fokkers' in the pocket...

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    Cyber Warfare Training Program

    Can't wait until that shit gets leaked!

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  8. Sudragon
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    Top geek?

    Leaks hell. Whats'd the movie going to be like?

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  9. Sudragon
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    Top Geek? A Geek and a Gentleman?

    Leaks hell. I'm waiting for the movie!

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