Pentagon Cyber Unit Prompts Questions

The Pentagon’s development of a “cyber-command” is prompting questions about its role in the larger national strategy to protect government and private-sector computer networks and whether privacy can be protected. And the command is fueling debate over the proper rules to govern a new kind of warfare in which unannounced adversaries using bits of computer code can launch transnational attacks.Defense officials are creating the command to defend military networks and develop offensive cyber-weapons, based on a strategy that brings together the military’s cyber-warriors and the National Security Agency, the organization responsible for electronic espionage.
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