the timboucher experience

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” - Ephesians 6:12

Well, now that we have robotic remote controlled soldiers, we will need a global automated command system to control them. Lucky for us, the Pentagon is said to be envisioning an “internet in the sky” with which to wage futuristic wars. I really do think they ought to just come right out and call it Skynet like in Terminator.

The Pentagon calls the secure network the Global Information Grid, or GIG. Conceived six years ago, its first connections were laid six weeks ago. It may take two decades and hundreds of billions of dollars to build the new war net and its components.

… Military contractors - and information-technology creators not usually associated with weapons systems - formed a consortium to develop the war net on Sept. 28. The group includes an A-list of military contractors and technology powerhouses: Boeing; Cisco Systems; Factiva, a joint venture of Dow Jones and Reuters; General Dynamics; Hewlett-Packard; Honeywell; I.B.M.; Lockheed Martin; Microsoft; Northrop Grumman; Oracle; Raytheon; and Sun Microsystems. They are working to weave weapons, intelligence and communications into a seamless web.

The funny part though is that they already made a system like this, twice actually. Both of them failed.

The Pentagon’s scientists and engineers, starting four decades ago, invented the systems that became the Internet. Throughout the cold war, their computer power ran far ahead of the rest of the world.

Then the world eclipsed them. The nation’s military and intelligence services started falling behind when the Internet exploded onto the commercial scene a decade ago. The war net is “an attempt to catch up,” Mr. Cerf said.

Fortunately, there are a million and one reasons this won’t work. Or so we can hope for now. In the meantime, it’s probably about time that we start educating ourselves and each other in such topics as crypto-anarchism, parasitic use of media, and other viral computing techniques. Richard Dawkins proposed an interesting theory about a “WormNet:”

The SuperWorm would combine the capabilities of recent worms/viruses. This hi-tech worm could lever itself into becoming a ‘WormNet’ inside the existing Internet [or in this case, Skynet], with worms on individual infected computers sending encrypted communications to each other. Worms could exchange latest worm-code updates and get lists of new attack targets. These features would even enable them to morph into new worm generations.

Once established, the SuperWorm would be a permanent presence on the Internet. It could be scaled up and down in intensity or retargeted by its human controller(s). It could also be used to untracably broadcast to the world audience on the Internet…

Secreted on hundreds of thousands of computers, WormNet would become an intractably persistent presence –piggybacking on existing Internet communications protocols…

Either that, or just sit back and let the robots take over.

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