bureaucrats: "This one was significant; this one got our attention,"

The age of computerized, non-feeling warfare with the press of a button run by agents of the state has its necessary corollary in viruses such as "agent.btz," which apparently has pretty badly messed up the computer systems of the department of offense. The establishment media says that though "Defense officials would not describe the extent of damage inflicted on military networks...they said that the attack struck hard at networks within U.S. Central Command, the headquarters that oversees U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and affected computers in combat zones. The attack also penetrated at least one highly protected classified network."
A ban on flash drives everywhere has been the result, as subversive programs ...or ideas... might be contained on them: not in response to actual virii, but in response to potentially viral videos, the mil has also blocked youtube and set up "trooptube," where everything gets filtered through the pent-a-gone. As the authoritarians press further into their endless war, I won't be surprised if we see more and more of these kinds of attacks. Anti war soldiers (the number is apparently steadily growing) put an end to Vietnam; with the recent rejection of the SOFA by the rebellious little toy soldiers of the iraqi puppet parliament --not that it's good enough, since they're still not ALL OUT RIGHT NOW-- and the growth of the IVAW, not to mention the increased frequency of hack-attacks and virii, the reign of the technocrats and their electronic wars is feeling the heat. Perhaps they will get the hell out of the kitchen and let the people get a chance to have something to eat.