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Friday, May 24, 2013

The funny side of cyber war -- or maybe not so funny

Cyber war has been more and more in the news lately -- but what is it?  The quote below is from the Wikipedia article linked here and gives a short definition:
Cyber warfare refers to politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare sometimes seen as analogous to conventional warfare, and in 2013 was, for the first time, considered a larger threat than Al Qaeda or terrorism, by many U.S. intelligence officials.
All the news about this topic sounds so bad, let's see what humor can be found in the dire.

From U.S. News and World Report is this cartoon by Scott Stantis:

image:  cartoon by Scott Stantis about cyber warfare

Also from U.S News is a cartoon by Chan Lowe:

image:  cartoon by  Chan Lowe about cyber warfare

This tweet, intercepted by Dan Wasserman, was published by U.S.News:

image:  cartoon by  Dan Wasserman about cyber warfare

According to Tom Purcell everything is usable in warfare (cartoon found at Cagle).

image:  cartoon by Tom Purcell about cyber warfare

And then there's the final conundrum of all warfare from Drew Sheneman, published by The Week:

image:  cartoon by Drew Sheneman, titled "A confounding war"

Batten down the hatches, Folks.

-- Marge

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