Toasted Dolphin

Actually there is a fourth- Saudi Arabia.

lkwalker wrote:Governments have been preparing for cyber warfare for 20 years. This is neither new nor surprising.

Fair enough. But, when I read about something like this (and this might be because I'm a laymen), I always picture some computer techies racing to come up with something and not knowing half the potential problems that may occur when they let it loose.

That's true of any weapons system.

lkwalker wrote:That's true of any weapons system.

Mmmmmmm..... I'd say a computer program is more "alive" than a missile system for example.

At a certain level, the analogies are one-to-one.

MrPenny wrote:At a certain level, the analogies are one-to-one.

I was hoping you or pigeon would cut in. Can you explain that. I'm extremely noobish with this sort of thing.

I wasn't thinking of it at a technical level.....but a conceptual level. Let me see if I can rephrase it......at a certain level, all weapons have the same purpose and goal.

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MrPenny wrote:I wasn't thinking of it at a technical level.....but a conceptual level. Let me see if I can rephrase it......at a certain level, all weapons have the same purpose and goal.

Sure, that's true. I just meant that Ak-47s backfire and there's a lot less that could go wrong with them than a program set lose.

what about an atom bomb? that's a little more kick than a gun.