Cyberspace Quotes
Many people not only disagreed with him but thought is analogy was also wrong. Most of the nations in the world do not have a navy. The few that do, have never claimed that the navy was deployed for civilian purposes. They did so to protect their merchant ships, prevent blockades and to project power—all military activities. Critics observe that few nations would risk a situation where their enemies might cyberattack them and they would have no defenses and could not counterattack. So other nations will respond to large cyberdefenses deployed by some countries with an “arms race” of cyberdefense. The reason the United States added 4000 personnel to Cyber Command was because China and Russia had deployed cyberdefense capability. Also cyberdefense capability produces cyberattack capability. These critics argue that cyberspace is already militarized.
We have government by the clueless, over a place they’ve never been, using means they don’t possess.
Describing government attempts to regulate the Internet and other electronic communications:
For example, most of the documents that are classified as secret in the CIA are so classified because the censor thought the information might be damaging to the CIA’s interest, not the American citizen’s. However, there is a strange logic that is sometimes given to justify censoring material that would embarrass the agency: If the agency is embarrassed, public support and confidence in the agency will be eroded, and that in turn will cause investigations, reviews, and possible diminished budgets. This would be distracting from the agency’s mission of keeping Americans safe, so the public should be kept in the dark about embarrassing material.
