China is America's enemy #1 in the cybercrime arena.
The Pentagon released a report to the Congress yesterday, identifying cyberattacks as cause for real war.
“When warranted, we will respond to hostile attacks in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country,” the report said.
“We reserve the right to use all necessary means – diplomatic, informational, military and economic – to defend our nation, our allies, our partners and our interests.”
That’s bad news for China, that is suspected to host the world’s largest nest of hackers and cybercriminals.
At DomainGang, we get daily attacks on our servers from Chinese IPs and the only remedy has been to block entire Class B networks.
Despite being behind a gigantic firewall called the “great firewall of China”, the number of Chinese Internet users is multiplying at alarming rates.
“If directed by the president, DoD will conduct offensive cyber operations in a manner consistent with the policy principles and legal regimes that the department follows for kinetic capabilities, including the law of armed conflict”, says the report.
Thousands of web sites are hacked and millions of IPs are used to form botnets that unleash attacks against financial, military and corporate institutions in the US.
The Pentagon says it’s time for real war.
I am all for it.
Blow the internet away!!
BullS – Can you live without the internets?