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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 03:16 PM
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Military Companies Vying For Billions Of Dollars In Cyberwarfare Defense Contracts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/30/military-companies-vying_n_209401.html

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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 03:18 PM
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1. Why the shrug? nt
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 03:33 PM
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3. Don't they always beg for free money?
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 03:19 PM
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2. It's the elephant in the room, but military spending also helped drive the US gov't into deficits.
We could cut military spending by half, which is a little over 300 billion/year, and we would still rank as the greatest military spender on the planet beating both Russia and China.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 03:34 PM
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4. Certain cuts wouldn't hurt our standing in terms of might or ther mount of money spent either...
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 03:45 PM
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5. Why do I get the feeling that these "Cyberwarfare Defense Contracts" are meant to
Wage cyberwar on US citizens rather than protect our country from outside attacks?
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 06:43 PM
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6. "Military companies" don't know shit about "cyberwarfare".
"Cyberwarfare" is itself pretty much a bullshit concept.
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