© Bryan William Jones
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military's Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech's computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military's most important weapons system.
"We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back," says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. "We think it's benign. But we just don't know."
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I had a very able and intelligent networking instructor tell me once that internet security was a farce. These guys may not be using the internet, but they are using come sort of communication system (satellite-based I would guess). And any communication system that uses radio links can be tinkered with.
What could happen with this technology over the next few years could be so perverse that I don't even want to think about it. What if it fell into the "wrong" hands? What if it already is in the wrong hands?
How long can we sustain the spiritual confusion caused by this type of warfare? And warfare in general, for that matter? If we cannot find some way to elevate ourselves above this way of relating to each other, I don't think this society can last much longer.