Fear the Pentagon’s Malware Army

Kurt Nimmo TruthNews November 7, 2007

Killer robots loaded up with malware. That’s what a defense department advisory board is warning, according to the Register.

“The kill machines will use software largely written overseas, and it is feared that sinister forces might meddle with it in production, thus gaining control of the future mechanoid military,” writes Lewis Page.

Because the Pentagon wants the software on the cheap. It’s not said where production may go, but we can guess — India, or China, per se, but then, in the case of the latter, it really is not big deal as the commies already have an appreciable chunk of our military technology, due to spies and our “friends,” the Israelis. As for the former, the Chinese seem to be really adept at hacking our government and military computers, using mundane appearing websites as cover (see FBI probes for Chinese cyber spies).

Shopping on a budget, apparently because trillions are missing from the Pentagon—naw, this can’t be right, when the boys with scrambled eggs on their caps need more cash, they run to Congress with dire threats in tow—we are told the US Army’s Future Combat Systems program believes there is a “low to moderate risk that malicious code could be inserted… and exploited.”

Sure, I bet. And hundreds of attempts a day are made to penetrate my pedestrian firewall, many of them from China.

It seems there is also an “irresistible tendency to replace relatively secure special-purpose communications… with the general purpose Internet Protocol (IP) stack,” again to do things on the cheap, or so it seems. “If that doesn’t boil down to a teenager with a laptop seizing control of robot helicopter gunships, we don’t know what does,” writes Lewis. “We’ll say that again: ROBOT GUNSHIP HAX0R ARMY MENACE 2 SOCIETY. Aiee! Run! (It won’t be any use, but run anyway.)”

Call it the Hacker Robot Army, afflicted with malware and going up against whomever its master desires. “Still, things might be OK. Apparently the incredibly expensive new F-22 Raptor stealth superjet is pretty secure (it ‘appears to be at the high end… for secure software development’). So the Raptor finally has a clear and well-defined purpose: saving the taxpayers from the hacker robot army,” Lewis assuages.

Gosh, I feel better already.

Not.